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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>
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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>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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		<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>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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		<category><![CDATA[Franklin Roosevelt administration:  1933-1945]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Presidency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=3286</guid>
		<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>Moving Beyond the Cold War</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/07/11/moving-beyond-the-cold-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane Maddock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arms Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton administartion:  1993-2001]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decolonization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disarmament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Early Cold War:  1945-1961]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George H. W. Bush administration:  1989-1993]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Truman administration:  1945-1953]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cold War ended twenty years ago, but it remains the preeminent focus of historians of U.S. foreign relations.   The disappearance of the Soviet Union also prompted few changes in U.S. national security policy.  One could chalk up both phenomena to inertia. Once a field begins to focus heavily on a period [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan War:  2001-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama administration:  2009-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton administartion:  1993-2001]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[George H. W. Bush administration:  1989-1993]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Late Cold War:  1961-1991]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson administration:  1963-1969]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=3235</guid>
		<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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[Domestic politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internationl law and treaties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Presidency]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=3094</guid>
		<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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		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan War:  2001-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-War Efforts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Domestic politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush administration:  2001-2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War:  2003-present]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam:  1961-1975]]></category>

		<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>An Age without Surrender Ceremonies</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/10/an-age-without-surrender-ceremonies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/10/an-age-without-surrender-ceremonies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Dudziak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama administration:  2009-present]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a snippet from the book I’m finishing up this fall.  This passage is about what I think of as President Obama’s “Mission Accomplished” moment, and it raises questions about how to think about the role of wartime in American history during a period when wars don’t seem to end.






U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Kimberly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Foreign Policy: An Assessment After Year One &#8212; Introduction</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/obamas-foreign-policy-an-assessment-after-year-one-introduction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/obamas-foreign-policy-an-assessment-after-year-one-introduction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Johns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little over a year ago, I wrote an essay for this page that outlined some of the multitudinous foreign policy challenges that would face Barack Obama’s administration when it took office on 20 January 2009 (“Of Mice, Men, and Presidents,” December 2008).  During the past twelve months, the president and his national security team [...]]]></description>
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