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Questions for Dr. Rice

  • By
  • Peter Bergen,
  • New America Foundation
April 4, 2004 |

1. A search of all your public statements and writings reveals that you apparently mentioned Osama bin Laden only once and never mentioned Al Qaeda at all as a threat to the United States before 9/11. Why?

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Nation-Building 101

  • By
  • Francis Fukuyama,
  • New America Foundation
January 20, 2004 |

"I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation-building. I think our troops ought to be used to fight and win war." -- George W. Bush, October 11, 2000

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The Multipolar World Vs. The Superpower

  • By
  • Sherle R. Schwenninger,
  • New America Foundation
December 5, 2003 |

A grand strategy, such as it is pursued by the Bush Administration, ultimately rests on the simple idea of a unipolar world -- the notion that the United States is the only power that counts in the world today.

France's Envy for Power

Coincidentally, that is also why neo-conservative advocates are so critical of France's avowed goal of creating a multi-polar world, attributing it to France's superpower "envy."

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Sharing, Alaska-Style

  • By
  • Steven Clemons,
  • New America Foundation
April 9, 2003 |

Though most Americans don't believe this war is about oil, much of the rest of the world does. How the United States handles Iraq's oil after the war is therefore crucial. For guidance, America might look to its experiences in Japan after World War II and -- perhaps more surprisingly -- in Alaska in the 1970's.

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Right and Wrong

  • By
  • Michael Lind,
  • New America Foundation
January 13, 2003 |

If James Burnham had died in 1946, he might be remembered today as one of the major thinkers of the 20th century. The son of a railroad executive raised in an affluent Chicago suburb with an education from Princeton and Oxford, Burnham in the 1930s led the kind of life that left-wing intellectuals today fantasize about. While teaching at NYU, he worked as a top deputy of Leon Trotsky, wrote essays for Partisan Review, and acquired an enviable reputation during vacations as a chemin de fer player at casinos near Biarritz.

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Unfaithful

  • By
  • Peter Bergen,
  • New America Foundation
May 12, 2002 |

Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon has managed to do what Osama bin Laden could only dream of doing: uniting the umma, the global community of Muslims, behind the Palestinian cause -- and, to a lesser degree, against the United States. Enormous rallies have swept the Muslim world in past weeks, protesting Israel's military operations against the Palestinians, protests that easily dwarfed the pro-Osama demonstrations that followed the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

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Bush's Globalized NATO

  • By
  • Sherle R. Schwenninger,
  • New America Foundation
December 27, 2001 |

The war in Afghanistan could become a defining event not just for the fight against terrorism but for NATO and US-European-Russian relations. Already the war has brought changes that just a few months ago would have been unimaginable. For the first time in its history, NATO has invoked Article 5 of the Washington treaty establishing the alliance -- not to defend Europe, as was originally envisioned, but to support a US war in a region far from the European theater.

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A New Foreign Policy Tradition

  • By
  • James Pinkerton,
  • New America Foundation
November 23, 2001 |

Alone at the pinnacle of superpowerdom, Americans face a special burden. As we gaze out into the perpetuity of a long struggle, we know that for as long as we are the obvious leader of the world, we will also be the obvious target in the world.

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Debate, Global Political Values

  • By
  • Michael Lind,
  • New America Foundation
  • and John Gray, Professor of European Thought, London School of Economics and Political Science
November 22, 2001 |

Dear Mike
3rd November 2001

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Recovering Japan's Wartime Past -- and Ours

  • By
  • Steven Clemons,
  • New America Foundation
September 4, 2001 |

Celebrations this Saturday of the 50th anniversary of the San Francisco Treaty of Peace, which established the postwar relationship between Japan and the world, will focus on Japan's emergence as a pacifist market economy under the tutelage of its conqueror and later ally, the United States. Little attention will be paid to questions of historical memory or of liability for Japan's behavior during the war. The 1951 treaty, largely through the efforts of America's principal negotiator, John Foster Dulles, sought to eliminate any possibility of war reparations.

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