Tipping the War on Terror

SHAFR’s own Dr. Mary L. Dudziak has another piece up on Balkinization blog, regarding the Obama administration’s use of the term “tipping point” in relation to the global U.S. campaign against Al-Qaeda. The piece can be found here. Prof. Dudziak is the Asa Griggs Candler professor of law at the Emory University and a member [...]

“Peace Talks”

An essay by one of SHAFR’s own, Mary L. Dudziak, has been featured in the most recent edition of Foreign Policy magazine.  You can read the essay, an exploration of how and why the language of war has almost disappeared from campaign rhetoric, and join in the conversation here. Prof. Dudziak is the Asa Griggs [...]

Not Just the Economy, Stupid

It’s the economy, stupid. So goes the conventional wisdom about Presidential elections anyway. The theory is that domestic politics – and the economy in particular – trumps everything else, including matters of foreign relations. Are you better off than you were four years ago? If not, little else matters. It was most notably the case [...]