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(Or, On the Dangers of Wearing Two Hats at Once) As an adjunct faculty member at CSU San Marcos, I wear many hats in the classroom. The two I wear most often, however, are teaching U.S. foreign relations in the history department and teaching globalization in the global studies program. This semester, as it happens, [...]
Over the past year, the Bundeswehr has emerged as a significant fighting force in Afghanistan. Yet German public opinion is reflexively anti-militarist and extremely uncomfortable about the use of force in conflicts outside Europe. Chancellor Merkel should speak candidly about Germany’s world role.
These words are difficult to write. Fifty years ago, the people of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo drifted in a purgatory between independence and continued Belgian control. It seems like only yesterday that nationalist leaders like Patrice Lumumba climbed a mountain of severed hands to point their people toward a new future. [...]