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…els of government. Fifth: Though the changes working through the global order depend generally on innovation rooted in American institutions, corporations and ideas, there is now an uneasy sense: This order is slipping from American control. Look back just two decades. Then Amer...

/ BARAK / 132 its terror attack on a Pan American airliner in the late 1980s. Or, as in South Africa, that a change in nuclear policy might come from a change in régime in Tehran. Yet realistically, we couldn’t count on either. And there was no doubt in our minds that a nuclear...

… Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the teeth of contemporary challenges. "There is nothing preordained about American decline any more than the European project is destined to fail," he writes. "But the portents are not good. Despite the rhetoric, President Obama condu...

…efficiency standards: "We are about to put up a tombstone that says, 'Here lies America's energy policy'. CAFE protects American jobs. If CAFE is weakened now, come the next energy crunch, American car makers will not be able to meet demand for fuel-efficient cars." Well, the res...

…on. The fourth role is to provide personnel to go into government service for fixed periods of time through the famous American “revolving door,” whereby think tanks become “governments in waiting” for ex- and would-be officials until just after an election, when there is usuall...

… from Salvini to Orban in view of the 2019 elections NEW YORK. The invasion of Europe has begun. Steve Bannon, 65, the American far-right guru who was Donald Trump’s right-hand man in the White House — but let go last summer following the racist violence in Charlottesville — is...

…s a direct response to the actions of President Woodrow Wilson at the end of World War I. Wilson had promised China, an American ally, that German colonies in Shandong would be returned to Chinese sovereignty, but instead handed them to Japan. China exploded with anti- American,...

Saudi Arabia. When Saudi Arabia wanted American forces removed from the kingdom, for example, Qatar was eager to compensate by hosting a more robust American command presence in the region. The Arab uprisings and subsequent GCC intervention in Bahrain have turned the tables, mak...

…: Yale University Press. Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P.R. (Eds.). (2011). The Social Psychology of Morality. Washington: American Psychological Association. Staub, E. (2010). Overcoming Evil. New York: Oxford University Press. Trivers, R. (2011). The Folly of Fools: The Logic of...

…ded became whole and free. Hundreds of millions of people benefited. They still do. This was one of the finest hours of American diplomacy. His reward for great achievements on the world stage was to be defeated in the 1992 election. After all, he’d raised taxes. He’d let the siz...

…ight in view of the European elections which will be held in spring 2019. Objective: to compete with George Soros, the American billionaire of Hungarian origin, benefactor of the Democratic party, who since 1984 with his Open Society has spent at least $32 billion in support of...

CHARITY TILLEMANN DICK Charity Tillemann Dick is an American-born soprano and a recipient of two double lung transplants. Charity has performed across the United States, Europe, and Asia in venues as diverse as the Rose Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City; The Kennedy C...

… century made it increasingly difficult to communicate with recruits through its diplomatic missions. To evade it, the “American” division of the SVR was given the task of placing individuals in the United States disguised as ordinary Americans. Their “legend,” or operational cov...

…es a very broad range of Chinese activities, only some of which constitute coercive, covert, or corrupt interference in American society and none of which actually undermines our democratic political institutions. Not distinguishing the legitimate from the illegitimate activities...

…s, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers for Irish. It should be to produce good lawyers for Americans... Justice Douglas’ dissenting views quickly became the standard approach of old fashioned liberals committed to Martin Luther King’s dream of a colo...