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		<title>1980 Election and American Foreign Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/11/29/1980-election-and-american-foreign-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Busch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The election of 1980 took place in an atmosphere of considerable concern by Americans that the position of the United States in the world had dangerously slipped. Since the fall of Saigon in 1975, at least ten countries had tumbled into the Soviet orbit. When Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in December 1979, it was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 4/19/10</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel has delivered a secret warning to Syrian President Bashar Assad that it will respond to missile attacks from Hezbollah, the militant Lebanese-based Islamist group, by launching immediate retaliation against Syria itself. [more]
Last week, U.S. and Brazilian officials signed a defense pact that will significantly enhance bilateral military ties. While the agreement does notexplicitly discuss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 2/8/10</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/02/08/weekly-digest-2810/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama&#8217;s decision not to attend a planned summit between the United States and the EU in May&#8211;and the testy European reaction to that decision&#8211;underscores &#8220;the unrealistic expectations&#8221; that have been in play between Europe and the United States since Obama took office. [more]
Predictions of America’s decline are vastly overstated. Asia is indeed increasing [...]]]></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>Obama and U.S. Foreign Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/obama-and-u-s-foreign-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KC Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Historians, of all people, should understand the dangers of prematurely evaluating a President’s foreign policy record. Quite apart from all that we learn as archives open, the passage of time provides perspective. To take an obvious example: while few contemporary observers would celebrate it now, at the time, Ronald Reagan’s approach to Afghanistan was heralded [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/a-view-from-the-outside-assessing-obamas-first-year-as-president/#comments</comments>
		<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; 1/19/10</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/19/weekly-digest-11910/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times wonders what the American role in Haiti is going to be after the current disaster is dealt with. The sad reality is that it’s hard to imagine a better future for Haiti absent a great deal of American involvement, but it’s equally hard to see what strategic calculation could justify such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 1/4/10</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/04/weekly-digest-1410/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many African nations staged a walk-out at the recent Copenhagen climate conference.  They claim that the larger nations are marginalizing the smaller nations.  [more]
Britain and the US closed embassies in Yemen because of fears of an imminent terror attack by al-Qaeda elements. [more]
As the United States and its allies wrestle with the issue of Iran&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 12/7/09</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/12/07/weekly-digest-12709/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ If President Obama is looking for something that transcends the national divisions over healthcare reform and Afghanistan          policy, he might try isolationism. [more]
The Afghan surge makes military action against Iran less likely &#8212; and refutes the thesis that America wages war in the Muslim world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 11/9/09</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/11/09/weekly-digest-11909/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/11/09/weekly-digest-11909/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since coming to office ten months ago, Panetta&#8217;s boss, Barack Obama, has authorized as many aerial attacks by C.I.A.-operated drone bombers in Pakistan as George Bush did in his final three years.  What does international law say about the death of civilians? [more]
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday urged Iran to accept a [...]]]></description>
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