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Dollars & Sense

Pundits across the political spectrum have been busy making pronouncements about the “real” financial and political costs of the war in Iraq. Most of them are just blowing smoke. In TNI’s Realist, Grover Norquist and Dov Zakheim separate fact from

The Future of Nationalism

A combination of fatigue and the declining importance of the state may make this divisive ideology easier to handle in the next century.

International Law vs. the American Constitution

The trend toward "global governance" on the part of overzealous international law courts poses a real threat to U.S. sovereignty.

Paradise Denied: The State Department, the Caribbean, and the Jews of Europe

Of all the remarks philosophers have made about history, few are as simple or powerful as Hegel's comment that history is a butcher's block. It is the blood of innocents that flows most freely from that block, their cries muffled by those who shou

The Op-Ed History of America

Many American policymakers and scholars believe they have learned the lessons of nineteenth and twentieth-century history for U.S. foreign policy. Three such "lessons" dominate discussion: the Lesson of American Development; the Lesson of the Pax

Response to Heather Wilson's 'Missed Opportunities'

Heather Wilson's article will, no doubt, win her few friends among her former colleagues in the Bush administration or among their successors.

America and Bosnia

 The American government badly needs to break the mold it has set for   itself and pledge its power to a definitive settlement.

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May 26, 2012