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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama administration:  2009-present]]></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>US-Pakistan Relations: The Need for a Strategic Vision</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/03/14/us-pakistan-relations-the-need-for-a-strategic-vision/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2011/03/14/us-pakistan-relations-the-need-for-a-strategic-vision/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 01:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masood Raja</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=2990</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a former Pakistani military officer and as the editor of an academic journal on Pakistan, I often interact with Pakistanis from different walks of life. During my visit to Pakistan a few months ago, I had the privilege of engaging with ordinary Pakistanis, academics, and some very powerful old friends. Our conversations always centered [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan War:  2001-present]]></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>Immunitary Paradigm and its Destructive Logic in US Foreign Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/17/2664/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/17/2664/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masood Raja</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[al Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roberto Esposito]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would not be an exaggeration to suggest that for the past few years Afghanistan and Pakistan (Af-Pak is the standard neologism for this) have become the new frontier of US foreign policy.
In most public and academic discussions of this area of the globe, US involvement in the region is presented in a reductive binary structure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 4/26/10</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/04/26/2286/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/04/26/2286/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan War:  2001-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-War Efforts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arms Control]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Henry Sokolski argues that current U.S. political will to reduce nuclear dangers should be channeled into a practical set of control measures that are more likely to secure bipartisan support and can begin to be implemented without the legal consent of other states. [more]
How can the United States defend its national and commercial interests against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 4/12/10</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/04/12/weekly-digest-41210/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/04/12/weekly-digest-41210/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chile]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon administration:  1969-1974]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of the recent U.S.-Israeli tumult, a curious conventional wisdom is starting to evolve. A Washington that cajoles Israel on its settlements and resumes the peace process in earnest may finally garner Arab support for dealing with Iran&#8217;s nuclear menace. Although pressuring Israel to restrain its settlements may be a sensible means of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 3/15/10</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/03/15/weekly-digest-31510/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/03/15/weekly-digest-31510/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nuclear proliferation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some Pakistan Taliban members in the tribal areas say the onslaught of US drone attacks and Pakistani offensives in recent months is forcing the group underground and creating fractures. [more]
Israeli media reported Monday that the U.S. is pressing Israel to scrap a contentious east Jerusalem building project whose approval has touched off the most serious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diplomats Among Warriors</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/02/16/diplomats-among-warriors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/02/16/diplomats-among-warriors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Prados</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan War:  2001-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama administration:  2009-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Early Cold War:  1945-1961]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Afghanistan at the moment (February 2010), U.S. Marines, allied troops, and Afghan government soldiers are embarked on an offensive at a town called Marja in Helmand province. American commander-in-chief General Stanley A. McChrystal here makes the first expression of the strategy that underlies the appeal for reinforcements that led to the Obama administration “surge” [...]]]></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[Arms Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arms Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton administartion:  1993-2001]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hegemony]]></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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		<title>What Obama Might Learn from the Past: Bending History in the Direction of Justice</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/what-obama-might-learn-from-the-past-bending-history-in-the-direction-of-justice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/what-obama-might-learn-from-the-past-bending-history-in-the-direction-of-justice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is the nature of the political process that presidents campaign outside history and must then live within it. For Barack Obama, this meant promising a speedy withdrawal from Iraq, a stronger focus on defeating Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, firm but respectful relations with Russia and China, engagement with opponents like Iran, and progress with our [...]]]></description>
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