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		<title>American Patriotism Part II: Change</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/05/23/american-patriotism-part-ii-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 01:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michaela Hoenicke Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patriotism is a domestic phenomenon and practice. It is that part of a larger national political culture that supports and legitimizes the exercise of foreign policy. Anatol Lieven’s America Right or Wrong, published early in the Iraq war, shows that an important function of state-sponsored patriotism is to structure the public discourse and shape public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Limping Leviathan</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/05/04/3186/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 14:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Ekbladh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently my own research has been focused on the interwar period and immersion in that period shows what a breakdown of an international order looks like.  I have just dipped into G. John Ikenberry’s Liberal Leviathan, a book that like many others presumes that American hegemony is at the very least experiencing some sort of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toppling Nuclear Shibboleths</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/02/03/toppling-nuclear-shibboleths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane Maddock</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=2898</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The New START treaty, which Russia ratified in late January, has stirred debate over the role of nuclear weapons in international politics. As Washington pressures both Iran and North Korea to abandon their nuclear ambitions, many U.S. commentators cling to the U.S. nuclear arsenal as a pillar of its international hegemony. They latch onto nuclear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Recession and Foreign Aid Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2011/02/03/the-great-recession-and-foreign-aid-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2011/02/03/the-great-recession-and-foreign-aid-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Ekbladh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajiv Shah, the youthful chief of USAID, gave a major speech two weeks ago about reforming the clunky U.S. government development apparatus.  Reform is a means to strengthen this “pillar” of U.S. policy to bear the burdens put on it by Hillary Clinton’s recently released “Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review.”  This ambitious new strategy sees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What actually happened:&#8221; The significance of historical reality in the face of spin</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/30/what-actually-happened-the-significance-of-historical-reality-in-the-face-of-spin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/30/what-actually-happened-the-significance-of-historical-reality-in-the-face-of-spin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michaela Hoenicke Moore</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=2734</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Among all the foreign policy news this past week several items seemed particularly pertinent for a diplomatic history blog: North Korea fired on South Korea, the Taliban leader with whom Kabul and NATO negotiated and whom “we gave a lot of money” was an impostor and a new cache from Wikileaks invites all of us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Safe for Democracy?</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/30/safe-for-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Foster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cheering crowds in Burma and one-day headlines in the United States in mid-November,  on the release of Aung San Suu Kyi from her years of house arrest reminded me of 1991, when I was in London conducting research for my dissertation, and attending the odd gatherings of the British Burma Society.  The British Burma [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immunitary Paradigm and its Destructive Logic in US Foreign Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Masood Raja</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theory and Ideas]]></category>
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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>History and the Blogosphere</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/10/history-and-the-blogosphere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Ekbladh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign aid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon administration:  1969-1974]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam:  1961-1975]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a pleasure to join the SHAFR in-house blog.  Before this inaugural posting I did what historians do and went to the archives, i.e. the older posts on the site.  I was impressed by the thoughtful perspectives that other contributors (and the cross posts) brought to current events.
It drove home how comparatively rare this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware Presidents&#8217; Use of History</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/12/08/beware-presidents-use-of-history/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/12/08/beware-presidents-use-of-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Prados</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan War:  2001-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama administration:  2009-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam:  1945-1961]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are told that history plays as tragedy and repeats as farce. But perhaps that is changing. In the summer of 2007 President George W. Bush invoked the Vietnam analogy to justify an equally or more tragic war in Iraq. And in the West Point speech announcing his new strategy for Afghanistan, President Barack Obama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The State Department Wants You! (or does it?)</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/11/23/the-state-department-wants-you-or-does-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/11/23/the-state-department-wants-you-or-does-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Molly Wood</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theodore Roosevelt administration:  1901-1909]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In October 2007, presidential candidate Barack Obama promised a new approach to American foreign policy.  “It’s time to make diplomacy a top priority,” he announced.  “Instead of shuttering consulates, we need to open them in the tough and hopeless corners of the world. Instead of having more Americans serving in military bands than the diplomatic [...]]]></description>
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