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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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		<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>Lessons for Late Baby Boomers</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/lessons-for-late-baby-boomers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Zeiler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m eight months older than President Barack Obama, so we fall into the same generation.  Of course, the similarities end there, including his ascent to a slightly higher administrative level than I will ever reach.  Still, we share some things in common because we gained an awareness of the world around the same time, in [...]]]></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>
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		<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; 10/6/09</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/10/06/weekly-digest-10609/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty political scientists have compiled a year-long study on American perception abroad.  Has the &#8220;Obama Effect&#8221; really changed the way the world sees America? [more]
The appearance in Washington last week of Iran&#8217;s foreign minister, while the blood is not yet dry from his government&#8217;s continuing suppression of student protests, is a reminder of the disastrous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8212; 2/12/09</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/02/12/weekly-digest-21209/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Regan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Historical thinking about current foreign relations:
Is Zimbabwe Now a Rogue State?  U.S. and Western military officials are calling on Iran to help stabilize Afghanistan.  France's return to NATO’s integrated military command. Obama's new even-handedness with the Middle East. Liberal hawks focused too much on the justice of going to war.  Al Qaeda has banded with the Taliban to create the Shadow Army.]]></description>
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