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		<title>Visions of War</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2012/01/09/visions-of-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Brewer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War:  2003-present]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 15th President Barack Obama welcomed home U.S. troops from a war he once had called “dumb.” His speech avoided the reasons why the Iraq War was fought and focused instead on honoring the American servicemen and women who fought it.  Inspiring words&#8211;“extraordinary achievement,” “honor,” “sacrifice,” “finest fighting force,” “unbroken line of heroes,” “progress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Issues for the 2012 Presidential Election</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/12/10/issues-for-the-2012-presidential-election/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2011/12/10/issues-for-the-2012-presidential-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Sarantakes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States of America is about to enter a presidential election year.  Actually, it already has entered the political season.  The election of 2012 will most likely turn on economics, but as Andy Johns pointed out in his blog, foreign policy is always important and next year’s contest will be no different.  In addition, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rising Isolationism, A Renewed Danger?</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/11/15/rising-isolationism-a-renewed-danger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2011/11/15/rising-isolationism-a-renewed-danger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher McKnight Nichols</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is an honor to be kicking off the blog for the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations for the fall of 2011. I thank Andrew Johns, Brian Etheridge, and the officers of SHAFR for the invitation, and I look forward to an excellent year of diverse debates and dynamic discussions.
For this column, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Note from Europe: The End of the World is Nigh</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/08/01/a-note-from-europe-the-end-of-the-world-is-nigh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2011/08/01/a-note-from-europe-the-end-of-the-world-is-nigh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michaela Hoenicke Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mid-July headline of the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) commenting on the two debt crises in Europe and the United States reads “The End of the World Is Near – But Only for You.” The article cleverly illustrates the deepening transatlantic gap when it comes to political and economic frames of reference. Americans are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WikiLeaks Still Rippling</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/06/26/wikileaks-still-rippling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Belmonte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan War:  2001-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama administration:  2009-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush administration:  2001-2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bradley Manning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Declassification]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Julian Assange]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Tis the season of the summer blockbuster and our profession’s closest approximation thereof offers something for everyone.
Sex, violence, intrigue, the ubiquitous cultural icon Lady Gaga – WikiLeaks has it all.
But what does it teach us as diplomatic historians? As concerned citizens?
So far, WikiLeaks raises more questions than it answers.
Last year, news of the most massive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Policy and the 2012 Presidential Election</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/06/06/3235/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2011/06/06/3235/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Johns</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[George H. W. Bush administration:  1989-1993]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan administration:  1981-1989]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam:  1961-1975]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a little over six months, voters in both major American political parties will begin the official process of selecting their respective presidential nominees.  Of course, the race for the White House in 2012 unofficially began on 5 November 2008 (the day after Barack Obama won his first term) and really picked up steam after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Varieties of American Patriotism &#8212; Part I</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/05/17/varieties-of-american-patriotism-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2011/05/17/varieties-of-american-patriotism-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 12:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michaela Hoenicke Moore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama administration:  2009-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture and international relations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush administration:  2001-2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homeland security]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Popular culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[millineals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[navy seals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osama bin-Laden]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=3213</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An interactive chart which the New York Times put up soon after the successful operation of the US Navy Seals showed that responses among the American reading public to Osama Bin Laden&#8217;s death were literally all over the map. Even comments logged into the &#8220;significant&#8221; and &#8220;positive&#8221; quadrant – which were the majority &#8211; expressed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to the End the Nuclear Power Delusion</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/04/11/time-to-the-end-the-nuclear-power-delusion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2011/04/11/time-to-the-end-the-nuclear-power-delusion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane Maddock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arms Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama administration:  2009-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Domestic politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Concerns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear policy & WMD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11 has once again cast nuclear power in a negative light. Fukushima Dai-Ichi has now joined Three-Mile Island and Chernobyl as warnings of an even-more devastating nuclear disaster that could lie in our future. In each instance, the public received assurance that the accident was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to the Shores of Tripoli</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/03/23/back-to-the-shores-of-tripoli/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2011/03/23/back-to-the-shores-of-tripoli/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Johns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama administration:  2009-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most overused clichés in the English language is “history repeats itself.”  Yet the events of the past several months seem to prove the point.  Trouble with pirates in the Mediterranean?  Conflict between the west and Islam?  The aftereffects of nuclear power in Japan?  We’ve seen all of these before.  But most recently, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The War of Analogies Over Egypt</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/02/16/2954/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2011/02/16/2954/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Johns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama administration:  2009-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post-9/11:  2001-present]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In today’s world of immediate gratification and instant explanation, nothing is more common than using history to attempt to explain and contextualize contemporary events.  Political leaders and media commentators are inclined to “simplify and reduce stories to conventional symbols for easy assimilation by audiences,” utilizing metaphors and historical analogies to sell a policy or define [...]]]></description>
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