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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8212; 4/26/09</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/04/26/weekly-digest-42609/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Regan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Internaional Human rights treaties]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Historical thinking about current foreign relations:
Problems with International human rights treaties.  UN conference on racism vs. 1975.  People and ideas influence events, but geography largely determines them.  Should U.S. government increase use of sharia.  World Bank and IMF.]]></description>
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		<title>The Cold War and Post-Cold War Worlds:  Continuities in Grand Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Stueck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the good fortune recently to participate in a conference at Duke University sponsored by the Triangle Institute for Strategic Studies. Each of the five sessions featured a paper on the reassessments of U.S. grand strategy that occurred in the aftermath of one of America&#8217;s wars from World War II to the present&#8211;World War II, [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[al Qaeda]]></category>
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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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		<title>War is Still a Racket&#8211;the U.S. and Israel</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/18/war-is-still-a-racket-the-us-and-israel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Buzzanco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Anti-Americanism is resurging in the Arab world,&#8221; the secretary of state reported  to U.S. embassies throughout the Middle  East.  &#8220;Recent bombings . . . vitriolic public statements by . . . high officials . . . diatribes and fantastic rumors,&#8221; he explained, &#8220;all testify to the reenkindling of Arab animosity against the United States.&#8221;  [...]]]></description>
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