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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>
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		<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>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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan War:  2001-present]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon administration:  1969-1974]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
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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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[Policymaking--American]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post-9/11:  2001-present]]></category>
		<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>Reagan and American Mood</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/29/reagan-and-american-mood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/29/reagan-and-american-mood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gil Troy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arms Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disarmament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Late Cold War:  1961-1991]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan administration:  1981-1989]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[1980 election]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=2672</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Amid the claims and counterclaims regarding Ronald Reagan’s 1980 electoral victory, one clarifying contradiction emerges. Yes, Reagan exaggerated, alleging a mandate for his Reagan Revolution which never existed. Yet, when Reagan implemented a more muscular, more flamboyantly patriotic, up-with-America, down-with-the-Communists foreign policy, he was doing what the American people hired him to do.
Ronald Reagan began [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 3/10/10</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/03/10/weekly-digest-31010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/03/10/weekly-digest-31010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan War:  2001-present]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Hurt Locker]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four years after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japanese cities, the Soviet Union explodes its first nuclear weapon at a test range in Kazakhstan. That the Soviet Union obtained &#8220;the bomb&#8221; is not surprising, but the timing of the test is. Most U.S. intelligence assessments at the time concluded Moscow was at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Peace Prize in Historical Perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/10/23/the-peace-prize-in-historical-perspective/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/10/23/the-peace-prize-in-historical-perspective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Molly Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-War Efforts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama administration:  2009-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disarmament]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theodore Roosevelt administration:  1901-1909]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Henry Kissinger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 9, 2009, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize: President Barack Obama.  The initial reaction was largely one of surprise, followed quickly by criticism.  Some suggested that Obama should turn down the prize.  Others began to interpret the award as a non-too-subtle indictment of former President George [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Process, Policy, and the Burdens of History in Latin America</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/10/21/process-policy-and-the-burdens-of-history-in-latin-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/10/21/process-policy-and-the-burdens-of-history-in-latin-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dustin Walcher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Americas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama administration:  2009-present]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=1723</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After three months in office, Barack Obama traveled to Trinidad and Tobago in April 2009 to attend the Fifth Summit of the Americas.  Already his presidency had been consumed by issues of major importance, both at home and abroad; Obama no doubt spent his days thinking about the global economic crisis, wars in Iraq and [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/10/19/weekly-digest-101909/#comments</comments>
		<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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