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		<title>Newt Gingrich and the (ab)Uses of History</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2012/01/06/newt-gingrich-and-the-abuses-of-history/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2012/01/06/newt-gingrich-and-the-abuses-of-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Johnstone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is an honor to join the SHAFR blogging team for 2011-12.  While SHAFR is (as the name makes perfectly clear) a society that focuses on the history of American foreign relations, there is no doubt that we are as well placed as anyone to make connections between historical events and contemporary issues in American [...]]]></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>
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		<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>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>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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Johns</dc:creator>
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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>1980 Election and American Foreign Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/29/1980-election-and-american-foreign-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/29/1980-election-and-american-foreign-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Busch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The election of 1980 took place in an atmosphere of considerable concern by Americans that the position of the United States in the world had dangerously slipped. Since the fall of Saigon in 1975, at least ten countries had tumbled into the Soviet orbit. When Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in December 1979, it was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching about Ronald Reagan by Confronting Contradictions</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/29/teaching-about-ronald-reagan-by-confronting-contradictions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/29/teaching-about-ronald-reagan-by-confronting-contradictions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Domber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we approach the thirtieth anniversary of his inauguration and the twenty-second anniversary of his exit from the White House, Ronald Reagan has attained an iconic status, beloved by the political right and often vilified by the political left. Because Reagan retreated from the public eye before most incoming freshman were born, he is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ronald Reagan, the Election of 1980, and Foreign Affairs: What You See Isn’t Always What You Get</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/29/ronald-reagan-the-election-of-1980-and-foreign-affairs-what-you-see-isn%e2%80%99t-always-what-you-get/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chester Pach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I had an agenda I wanted to get done,” Ronald Reagan explained after the end of his presidency. “I came with a script.” Thirty years ago, after trouncing Jimmy Carter in the election of 1980, Reagan brought that script to the White House. Its main elements are now familiar. Reagan wanted to diminish the power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A View from the Outside: Assessing Obama&#8217;s First Year as President</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/a-view-from-the-outside-assessing-obamas-first-year-as-president/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/a-view-from-the-outside-assessing-obamas-first-year-as-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Scanlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama’s run for the presidency was observed by European publics perhaps more than any US election in recent history. Students, for whom the presidency of Bill Clinton was barely a memory and little more than a footnote introducing the Bush era, debated the relative merits of a Clinton or Obama nomination largely in terms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 10/19/09</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/10/19/weekly-digest-101909/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the U.S. postpones a decision on Afghanistan, Gerald Posner reports on a new secret weapon in the arsenal of the Taliban and Al Qaeda: getting the Army addicted to their cheap heroin. [more]
President George H.W. Bush thought that after the victory in the Gulf war we had &#8220;kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for [...]]]></description>
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