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	<title>Across the Aisle</title>
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		<title>Process matters in building bipartisan support</title>
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Last week well-known neoconservative Robert Kagan had a column in the Washington Post and Foreign Policy magazine that argued that bipartisanship in foreign policy was alive and well in the Obama administration.  Although, I agree with Kagan&#8217;s central argument, I have issues with his rationale about why this came about and his prescriptions for the [...]


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		<link>http://blog.psaonline.org/2010/03/12/process-matters-in-building-bipartisan-support/</link>
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		<title>Big, Allied and Dangerous: The Behavior of Terrorist Organizations</title>
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Recently, Dr. Victor Asal and Dr. R. Karl Rethemeyer from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs &#38; Policy located at the University of Albany, State University of New York presented their ongoing research project, Big Allied and Dangerous: The Behavior of Terrorist Organizations (BAAD).  The project, funded by the National Consortium for the Study of [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://blog.psaonline.org/2009/06/05/picking-sides-yes-to-hamas-no-to-taliban-russia-and-us-at-crossroads/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Picking Sides: yes to Hamas, no to Taliban. Russia and US at crossroads'>Picking Sides: yes to Hamas, no to Taliban. Russia and US at crossroads</a></li><li><a href='http://blog.psaonline.org/2009/09/16/the-ashcroft-dilemma/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The Ashcroft Dilemma'>The Ashcroft Dilemma</a></li><li><a href='http://blog.psaonline.org/2010/01/15/stop-bucking-and-start-learning/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Stop Bucking and Start Learning'>Stop Bucking and Start Learning</a></li></ol>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.psaonline.org/2010/03/10/big-allied-and-dangerous-the-behavior-of-terrorist-organizations/</link>
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		<title>War&#8217;s Brave New World</title>
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It’s a brave new world out there, but I don’t think it is the one Aldous Huxley had in mind when he wrote his famed book in 1932.
What Huxley gave us was a frightening vision of the future. And in one sense, though not the one Huxley was writing about, that vision is becoming reality. [...]


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		<link>http://blog.psaonline.org/2010/03/01/war%e2%80%99s-brave-new-world/</link>
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		<title>Addressing the &#8220;God-gap&#8221; in U.S. foreign policy</title>
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Last week the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations released a new report that called on the U.S. to better engage religious communities in the conduct of its foreign policy.  Although foreign policy analysts frequently acknowledge the integral role of religion in conflicts and peacemaking around the world, the reality is that too often religious communities [...]


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		<link>http://blog.psaonline.org/2010/03/01/addressing-the-god-gap-in-u-s-foreign-policy/</link>
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		<title>What to make out of Russia&#8217;s new doctrine</title>
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There’s little new in Russia’s new military doctrine, approved by President Dmitry Medvedev on February 5. The document turned out to follow closely its predecessor, albeit possessing more clarity and concision. Fortunately, the role of nuclear weapons in Moscow’s security policy did not rise. Unfortunately, Russia continues to distrust NATO and resent its expansion. From [...]


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		<link>http://blog.psaonline.org/2010/02/17/what-to-make-out-of-russias-new-doctrine/</link>
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		<title>Getting History Right</title>
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I confess that I have been fantasizing. I realize that most people have moved on from Iraq to Afghanistan. But given the enormous toll paid both by Iraqis and Americans in terms of lives and money and overall social and cultural destruction I have been trying to imagine what it would look like if the [...]


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		<link>http://blog.psaonline.org/2010/02/16/getting-history-right/</link>
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		<title>Repeal the ban.  Our soldiers&#8217; lives are depending on it</title>
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President Obama’s announcement of his intention to work with Congress and the military to repeal the “don’t ask don’t tell” policy is the sort of change that should receive broad bipartisan support.  The public backs such a change.  A poll last year by the Washington Post/ABC news found that 75% of Americans supported the repeal.  [...]


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		<link>http://blog.psaonline.org/2010/02/10/repeal-the-ban-our-soldiers-lives-are-depending-on-it/</link>
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		<title>Obsession with Nuclear Deterrent Doesn&#8217;t Add Up</title>
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Retired Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral James Lyons argued in a Washington Times opinion piece on Monday that the US should “halt our participation in the START negotiations until we bring balance back into the equation.”  The equation to which Lyons refers is that of nuclear deterrence:  by maintaining the ability to destroy any [...]


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		<link>http://blog.psaonline.org/2010/02/03/obsession-with-nuclear-deterrent-doesnt-add-up/</link>
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		<title>Will arming the Gulf solve the Iranian problem?</title>
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Even as it withdraws from Iraq, the United States is increasing its military presence and arming the states in the Persian Gulf. President Barack Obama has boosted arms sales, stepped up the deployment of anti-missile defenses, and upgraded defenses for the oil infrastructure in the region. This military buildup is intended to deter the Iranian [...]


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		<link>http://blog.psaonline.org/2010/02/02/arming-the-gulf-states-pros-and-cons/</link>
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		<title>Assessing the State of the Union</title>
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Last night’s State of the Union address made clear that the Obama administration has reassessed its priorities in light of recent events.  Health care legislation has stalled in Congress, and Democrats experienced the loss of two governorships and Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in Massachusetts to the Republicans.  Opinion polls reveal the President’s approval [...]


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		<link>http://blog.psaonline.org/2010/01/28/assessing-the-state-of-the-union/</link>
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