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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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ID:
056920
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2003.
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p153-171
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146435
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187262
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In The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War, Louis Menand tests the proposition that the West’s victory in the Cold War might have been a bigger win on the cultural level than it was on the political and military ones. Nuclear dread does not pervade his narrative, and he handles strategic affairs interstitially. During the Cold War, he suggests, the United States and the Soviet Union exploited the human foibles illuminated by modern literature on a grand scale. Visual art, for its part, elevated and framed American capitalism as a cultural as well as an economic monolith. The US government, including the CIA, sought to weaponise Western culture, but Menand concludes that its unaided power was far greater than any government instrument’s. Art may now be less useful or powerful as a tool of cultural warfare than it was in the latter part of the twentieth century.
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051831
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058322
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Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004.
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128p.
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Adelphi paper; 367
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0198567596
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 049028 | 363.32/STE 049028 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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073052
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2006.
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The elimination of Afghanistan as al-Qaeda's physical base in 2001 hastened the dispersal of global jihadists into cities. In turn, the advent of Iraq as a field of jihad has prompted jihadists to refine and spread urban warfare techniques. If they choose to apply these techniques robustly to infiltrated cities elsewhere, the extraordinary need for special-operations forces - superseding the Western taboo on using a nation's military forces against its own citizens within its own territory - could arise. The US Department of Defense appears inclined to believe that the application of military power - albeit unconventional military power - will ultimately dictate victory. Such an attitude could lead to the downplaying of paramount non-military aspects of counter-terrorism, to the detriment of national and international security. If the US State Department were armed with a mandate to coordinate national counter-terrorism efforts, diplomatic, political, law-enforcement and intelligence efforts against terrorism would gain momentum and coherence.
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ID:
153361
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The list of strategic oversights on the part of those who advocated the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union, known as ‘Brexit’, is dauntingly long. One of the least-discussed challenges, but perhaps the most significant, is the loss of the EU as a conflict-resolution mechanism. Brexiteers appear to have assumed, rather complacently, that this was a question for other European countries, and not for Britain. In so doing, they overlooked a conflict not yet fully resolved – and a peace not yet fully consolidated – at home.
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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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ID:
183266
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Two books examine the connection between the 11 September 2001 attacks and the 6 January 2021 insurrection in the United States. In Reign of Terror, Spencer Ackerman overreaches in arguing that 9/11 led directly to 6 January by impelling the Bush administration’s expansion and empowerment of the ‘Security State’, which encouraged government officials and the American public to embrace right-wing extremism and Donald Trump’s authoritarianism. Factors other than the ‘war on terror’ amply explain America’s sharp turn to the right and Trump’s ascendancy. In Subtle Tools, Karen Greenberg offers the more nuanced and credible argument that Trump and his inner circle simply used the degradation of language, ‘bureaucratic porousness’, reflexive secrecy and the rejection of precedent arising from the policy and statutory responses to 9/11 to stoke right-wing extremism and manipulate government security policy and institutions.
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072026
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ID:
017633
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2000.
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p5-26
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ID:
127331
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2014.
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The title of Moisés Naím's new book, The End of Power, is unabashed hyperbole. By the evidence he adduces, the ongoing dispersal of power will entail undramatic and evolutionary adjustments.
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ID:
095989
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2010.
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Somalia's chronic governance and security problems started in 1991, when strongman President Mohammed Siad Barre was overthrown in a civil war. Competing clans then commandeered weapons supplied to his government alternately by the Soviets and the Americans during the Cold War, and proceeded to carve the country up into armed clan fiefdoms without central authority. Then came the famine that an ineffectual United Nations mission was unable to address, prompting the United States to lead an international military intervention in December 1992 with the relatively narrow intention of facilitating humanitarian relief, though in the grander service of a 'new world order'.
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ID:
081731
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ID:
186276
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Oxon, Routledge, 2022.
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140p.pbk
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Adelphi Series; 484-486
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9781032396095
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| 060192 | 355.70973/STE 060192 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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065557
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077368
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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:
176065
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Madison Smartt Bell’s votive biography Child of Light affirms novelist Robert Stone as a weathered observer of the American Century.
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