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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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher McKnight Nichols</dc:creator>
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		<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>Immunitary Paradigm and its Destructive Logic in US Foreign Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/17/2664/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masood Raja</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[al Qaeda]]></category>
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		<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; 3/24/10</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/03/24/weekly-digest-32410/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In New York City, Mexican immigrants’ articulations of rights are neither uniform nor straightforward, suggested Alyshia Gálvez at a recent talk co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Working Group on Anthropology and Population. Assistant Professor of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies at Lehman College, Gálvez described two projects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diplomats Among Warriors</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/02/16/diplomats-among-warriors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Prados</dc:creator>
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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>Diplomatic History in the Bush Era</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/09/30/diplomatic-history-in-the-bush-era/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/09/30/diplomatic-history-in-the-bush-era/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Prados</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apart from all the other excesses of the Bush Years there may be special problems for diplomatic history and historians. To some degree this is rooted in the changing dynamics of international relations but it also has a policy aspect. When the diplomatic history of the presidency of George W. Bush comes to be written [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Globalization and Diplomatic History</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/09/23/on-globalization-and-dipomatic-history/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/09/23/on-globalization-and-dipomatic-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimber Quinney</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=1664</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(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, I’ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking Paul Kennedy</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/02/12/rethinking-paul-kennedy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Stueck</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Nye]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Kennedy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Historians are not known for their prescience. There&#8217;s something about studying the past, with all its complexity, that discourages many of us from looking forward with any sense of confidence. Those of us who can&#8217;t resist the temptation as often as not&#8211;perhaps moreso&#8211;get things wrong. I remember that in the fall of 1980 I decided for [...]]]></description>
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