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…cratic regimes and openly assist dissidents and democrats. This is not about military intervention or the imposition of American- style democracy. It is about using American power and influence to support organic reform movements. The United States Agency for International Devel...

…onomic calculations. As for the surviving monarchies in the Middle East, they too will likely be less accommodating to American military forces than they have been in the past. To be sure, much of the Arab support for past American military operations -- like both Iraq wars -- w...

…orite, but hardly the only humanistic mode of communication!) to create a wider base of humanities materials for use in American schools and other institutions. We will begin integrating and anchoring Poetry in America content (on art, sport and play; on the environment; and on h...

…visible enemy. “You have to remember that these men have been seared, seared, by a decade of combat,” he said. The best American military minds had tried, with characteristically direct and relentless energy, to box the wildness of these wars. In books and papers and thousands of...

14 to stand tall for American greatness if only to anaesthetize them against day-to-day hardship. Republican wannabes sense all this. To judge by the early stages of the 2012 campaign, they think foreign policy might matter after all. They’re trying to cast Barack Obama as a pr...

/ BARAK / 80 American proposal. I suggested the President could tell Arafat that he’d try to get me to agree to it, providing Arafat first showed a readiness to move. The American questions did go further than ours. They asked Arafat whether he would negotiate on the basis of g...

… year ago, almost certainly too ambitious a vision. That vision was to produce the highest quality educational video on American poetry, creating a body of humanities content capable of reaching a broad community of learners: formal and informal, online and residential, young and...

… year ago, almost certainly too ambitious a vision. That vision was to produce the highest quality educational video on American poetry, creating a body of humanities content capable of reaching a broad community of learners: formal and informal, online and residential, young and...

… year ago, almost certainly too ambitious a vision. That vision was to produce the highest quality educational video on American poetry, creating a body of humanities content capable of reaching a broad community of learners: formal and informal, online and residential, young and...

…loquially, “panda hugging.” As China becomes more prosperous, this approach suggests, she will become more congenial to American interests. More cuddly. This was, for some, the basis for bringing China into the World Trade Organization in the 1990s. Later it justified deep commer...

…9, June 1983. *Bernanke, Ben, "Nonmonetary Effects of the Financial Crisis in the Propagation of the Great Depression," American Economic Review 73 (June 1983): 257-76. Cole, Harold and Lee Ohanian, "New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great Depression," Journal of Polit...

… can reasonably be considered part of United Front activities, include (official English translations where available): American-Chinese Commerce Development Association (HBA LMWEREAS); America-China Enterprise Chamber of Commerce (Fil. 324); China Enterprise Council (#420 8A tht...

48 Such cases establish a worrying precedent of Chinese intrusion into American academic life. The message from China to US universities is clear: Do not transgress the political no-go zones of the Chinese Communist Party or government, or you will pay a price. Sometimes the pre...

… unchallenged surges of naval, air, and ground forces into regional theaters via logistics hubs. These hubs -- like the American naval presence in Bahrain -- are large, readily identifiable, and will be increasingly vulnerable to future targeting by nuclear weaponry. Iran's nucl...

…:"body","text":"Huffing, snorting and in no hurry to move, the big-horned bovines occasionally meander across the Khmer-American Friendship Highway, the dusty, 140-mile route linking Phnom Penh’s factories with the port in the coastal city of Sihanoukville. They are not the only...