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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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher McKnight Nichols</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=3366</guid>
		<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>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>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=3264</guid>
		<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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Johns</dc:creator>
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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>
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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>Pernicious Effects of the All-Volunteer Military</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/02/08/pernicious-effects-of-the-all-volunteer-military/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2011/02/08/pernicious-effects-of-the-all-volunteer-military/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Foster</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=2907</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In each class I teach, I ask students to fill out an index card with the usual demographic information, but also to put there anything they think could affect their performance in class.  Usually they write about learning disabilities, commuting, family responsibilities, and athletic teams they are on.  But since 2003, an increasing number write [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toppling Nuclear Shibboleths</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/02/03/toppling-nuclear-shibboleths/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2011/02/03/toppling-nuclear-shibboleths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane Maddock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arms Control]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=2898</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The New START treaty, which Russia ratified in late January, has stirred debate over the role of nuclear weapons in international politics. As Washington pressures both Iran and North Korea to abandon their nuclear ambitions, many U.S. commentators cling to the U.S. nuclear arsenal as a pillar of its international hegemony. They latch onto nuclear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Strategy in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/01/23/american-strategy-in-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2011/01/23/american-strategy-in-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Selverstone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=2877</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten years into the Afghanistan war and we’re still debating strategy, tactics, and the advisability of continuing the war altogether. Unfortunately, we’re doing so mostly in print and on the airways—which is to say that this debate is not taking place in the streets or in Washington. For most Americans, the war remains obscured from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 3/10/10</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/03/10/weekly-digest-31010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/03/10/weekly-digest-31010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four years after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japanese cities, the Soviet Union explodes its first nuclear weapon at a test range in Kazakhstan. That the Soviet Union obtained &#8220;the bomb&#8221; is not surprising, but the timing of the test is. Most U.S. intelligence assessments at the time concluded Moscow was at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Wartime a Time to End Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell?</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/02/16/is-wartime-a-time-to-end-dont-ask-dont-tell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/02/16/is-wartime-a-time-to-end-dont-ask-dont-tell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Dudziak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Obama Administration moves (slowly) toward repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, one argument in opposition is that the nation is at war, and significant changes in the military should not take place during wartime. One response to that point is that all hands are needed during heightened military deployments, and it harms American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 2/8/10</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/02/08/weekly-digest-2810/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/02/08/weekly-digest-2810/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[iran]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama&#8217;s decision not to attend a planned summit between the United States and the EU in May&#8211;and the testy European reaction to that decision&#8211;underscores &#8220;the unrealistic expectations&#8221; that have been in play between Europe and the United States since Obama took office. [more]
Predictions of America’s decline are vastly overstated. Asia is indeed increasing [...]]]></description>
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