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A new book by two leading advocates of the realist school of International Relations inadvertently demonstrates the enduring importance of history, literature and philosophy when dealing with geopolitical crises.
John Mearsheimer
What is the Future of Cyber Deterrence?
Excerpt Scholars and practitioners alike have debated the feasibility of applying deterrence models to cyberspace. Advocates of “cyber persistence theory,” for instance, posit that deterrence strategies...
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How to Use Antisemitism Against Antisemites
Jewish power in America? When Sapir approached me to contribute an essay to this issue, my first instinct was to decline. I was born in South Africa and raised and educated in Canada. I became a U.S. citizen...
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Elevating ‘deterrence by denial’ in US defense strategy
The United States is at a critical strategic juncture. At the systemic level, changes in the distribution of military and economic power signal that the American unipolar moment has passed. Protecting US...
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Retain American Power, Do Not Restrain It
The call for the United States to show “restraint” by withdrawing from foreign entanglements and keeping the focus at home is growing in foreign-policy circles – and not just in the Trump administration....
The Dangerous Illusion of Restraining U.S. Power
Isolationists among both Democrats and Republicans want to withdraw from foreign entanglements. That would make the world much less safe.
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Done Deal?
All administrations are short-sighted. Even the brightest, most reflective people can develop acute tunnel vision when they join the paper-pushing, crisis-a-minute senior ranks of the National Se...
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The New Rouhani
Assessing contemporary figures on the world stage is tricky business. It takes time to properly reflect on what a man has done, and judgments based on brief acquaintance are often wrong. So it wa...
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Are We Too Fair-minded to Take Our Own Side?
In the 20th century, a war was waged against the Jews of Europe. It culminated in the Holocaust. In the 21st century, a war is being waged against the Jews of the Middle East. How that turns out...
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The Hitler Test
Why is it that no one bats an eyelash when a former United States national security adviser says...
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A Case of Leftist ‘McCarthyism’?
One of the most notorious newspapers ever published in America was The Spotlight, founded in 1975 by white supremacist Willis Carto. For many years the country's premier hate rag, it peaked...
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FDD In The News
Iran and the Myth of the Pro-Regime Backlash Emanuele Ottolenghi – The Wall Street Journal Would a U.S. military strike against Iran kill anti-regime sentiment inside the...
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FDD In The News
Iran and the Myth of the Pro-Regime Backlash Emanuele Ottolenghi – The Wall Street Journal Would a U.S. military strike against Iran kill anti-regime sentiment inside the...
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FDD In The News
Iran and the Myth of the Pro-Regime Backlash Emanuele Ottolenghi – The Wall Street Journal What’s Obama’s Plan B After Arab League Monitors? Tony...
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FDD In The News
Iran and the Myth of the Pro-Regime Backlash Emanuele Ottolenghi – The Wall Street Journal What’s Obama’s Plan B After Arab League Monitors? Tony...
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FDD In The News
Iran and the Myth of the Pro-Regime Backlash Emanuele Ottolenghi – The Wall Street Journal What’s Obama’s Plan B After Arab League Monitors? Tony...
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Islamist Ignorance
When Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer launched their campaign against "The Israel Lobby" with an article in the London Review of Books (March 23, 2006) — and subsequently in a bo...
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Why Ahmadinejad Acts the Way He Does at the U.N.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speeches at the United Nations and his utterances elsewhere in New York are, again, proof that the Marxist-Islamist Molotov cocktail that produced th...
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Bin Laden: U.S. Must Break From Israel For Peace
By Dr. Walid Phares Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden spoke to the American people on the eighth anniversary of 9/11 asserting that the main reason for the al-Qaida attacks on New...
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Bin Laden’s Strategy Shift
By Dr. Walid Phares In a 12 minutes address on audio tape, Al Qaeda chief Usama bin Laden, spoke to the American people on the eighth anniversary of 9/11. The tape was produced...