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091297
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2009.
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US President Barack Obama's current policy favours escalation in Afghanistan. The idea is that as the United States' military presence in Iraq is drawn down, the use of force can be refocused on Afghanistan to forge a more viable state. The principal instruments of this policy are more American troops with better force protection (a customised version of the counter-insurgency 'surge' employed with ostensible success in Iraq) and firmer bilateral diplomacy with Pakistan. The administration's policy appears to be overdetermined. The premise of the policy is that the United States must 'own' Afghanistan in order to defend its strategic interests. But that premise begs the question of whether US strategic interests actually require the United States to assume the grand and onerous responsibility of rebuilding the Afghan state. They do not.
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050210
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New York, Random House, 2002.
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xvii, 490p.
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0375508597
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| 046777 | 303.6250973/BEN 046777 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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077361
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066442
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2000.
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p.59-75
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065595
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2000.
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p.156-172
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ID:
059129
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2004.
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p7-30
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ID:
163593
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The Trump administration’s hard line towards Iran affords Washington little latitude for responding meaningfully to Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
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051831
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ID:
126048
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141542
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STEVEN SIMON is a Visiting Lecturer at Dartmouth College and served as Senior Director for Middle Eastern and North African Affairs at the White House from 2011 through 2012. JONATHAN STEVENSON is Professor of Strategic Studies at the U.S. Naval War College and served as Director for Political-Military Affairs for the Middle East and North Africa on the U.S. National Security Council staff from 2011 to 2013.
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072026
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ID:
187257
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More than 33 years after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued the extraordinary fatwa calling for Salman Rushdie’s death for blaspheming Islam in The Satanic Verses, a Lebanese-American man attacked and badly injured Rushdie in upstate New York. Although the attacker may have drawn some inspiration from Iran’s hostility towards Rushdie, and the attack did coincide with the discovery of Iranian plots to assassinate American officials in retaliation for the killing of Qasem Soleimani, there is no evidence that Iran or any Iranian proxy was involved, and there seemed to be no information about active threats. Iran’s response to the attack was malicious and provocative, but its condemnation of blasphemy is hardly unique or surprising. It is unrealistic for some Western commentators and officials to conclude that Iran’s vendetta against Rushdie means it cannot be trusted to abide by a revived Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
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ID:
160906
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In Donald Trump, the United States may have finally found a president whose views on Iran are both unambiguous and immutable.
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065550
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2003.
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p123-144
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ID:
066799
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London, Hodder and Stoughton, 2005.
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xvii, 330p.pbk
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0340899182
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| 050411 | 973.931/BEN 050411 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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075258
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2006.
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War in Lebanon highlights the lack of options, and victors, in the Middle East.
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ID:
080842
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2008.
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The Bush administration's new strategy in Iraq has helped reduce violence. But the surge is not linked to any sustainable plan for building a viable Iraqi state and may even have made such an outcome less likely -- by stoking the revanchist fantasies of Sunni tribes and pitting them against the central government. The recent short-term gains have thus come at the expense of the long-term goal of a stable, unitary Iraq
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051540
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May-Jun 2004.
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The Bush administration has shrugged off the Syrian president's recent attempts at rapprochement with the West. It should think again. With Syria's old ally Saddam Hussein gone, Damascus is trapped in a strategic quandary that makes it highly receptive to coercive diplomacy--of the kind that worked on Libya. And by engaging Syria sooner rather than later, the United States could give the Middle East peace process a shove in the right direction.
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ID:
104397
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Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010.
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xi, 207p.
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9780199754496, hbk
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| 055983 | 355.02170955/ALL 055983 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
176518
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The current crisis is setting ominous precedents for would-be authoritarians, but it does not appear to be a game changer in the tussle between democratic and authoritarian regimes.
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