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Towards a liberal theory of international relations
Source: CIS
Author: Sam Roggeveen
Country: United States

"The Rationalist school,with its emphasis on the existence of an international society, is arguably the most liberal of the three main international relations theories." (06/01)

U.S. Assistance for Market Reforms: Foreign Aid Failures in Russia and the Former Soviet Bloc
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Janine R. Wedel
Country: United States

The U.S. and other Western countries have been giving billions of dollars to former Soviet Bloc countries. What has it accomplished? Policy Analysis. Full text in Adobe Acrobat. (3/99)

Protecting the Homeland: The Best Defense Is to Give No Offense
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Ivan Eland
Country: United States

Policy Analysis that point out how "even the weakest terrorist group can cause massive destruction in the homeland of a superpower" and that terrorism against Americans will escalate until the United States stops actively interfering in other nations' affairs.

Special Operations Military Training Abroad and Its Dangers
Source: Cato Institute
Author: John Rudy and Ivan Eland
Country: United States

Current provisions for training deployments of Armed Forces special operations personnel (Green Berets, etc.) are so flexible that they serve to allow the Pentagon its own unregulated foreign policy instrument. The authors call for a far more limited program. Cato Foreign Policy Briefing Number 53; in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. (6/23/99)

The strategic importance of Turkey after 9/11
Source: Association for Liberal Thinking
Author: Saban Kardas
Country: Turkey

" ... thanks to its character as a modern Muslim country, Turkey stands as a bridge between Western and Islamic civilizations. The importance attributed to Turkey's strategic value became more visible following the events of Sept. 11 ..." (06/25/02)

Faulty Justifications and Ominous Prospects: NATO’s Victory in Kosovo
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Christopher Layne
Country: United States

President Clinton claimed "victory" in Kosovo, but according to Christopher Layne the administration's policy "habitually failed to meet its objectives." The report can be viewed in PDF format. (10/25/99)

Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention Illusory Benefits and Nasty Side Effects
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Eric R. Taylor
Country: United States

"The Biological Toxins and Weapons Convention prohibits signatory nations from developing, possessing, employing, or transferring biological weapons. The convention does not contain any protocols for its enforcement, however." New protocols may "essentially render inspections useless in demonstrating either compliance with or violation of the convention." This report is in PDF format.(10/18/99)

Constitutional problems with enforcing the biological weapons convention
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Ronald D. Rotunda
Country: United States

Banning the development, transfer, and production of biological weapons sounds like a good idea, but in the U.S. there may be constitutional issues involved. Ronald Rotunda examines those issues in this report. Available in Adobe PDF. (9/28/00)

J. Reuben Clark (1871-1961) and non-intervention
Source: Antiwar.com
Author: Joseph Stromberg
Country: United States

In politics, law and religion, Joshua Reuben Clark, Jr. believed in and supported peaceful relations with other nations and military non-intervention. (4/4/00)

Are we prepared for terrorism using weapons of mass destruction?
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Eric R. Taylor
Country: United States

This report examines the United States' lack of "a clear plan for meeting the needs of its citizens in the event of a terrorist attack" using weapons of mass destruction. It is availabe in Adobe PDF. (11/27/00)

A foreign policy report card on the Clinton-Gore administration
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Jonathan G. Clarke
Country: United States

This report grades the Clinton-Gore foreign policy and gives the administration a D because of the "number of botched opportunities." It is available in Adobe PDF. (10/3/00)

War isn't obsolete yet
Source: Antiwar.com
Author: Joseph Stromberg
Country: United States

Despite claims that large-scale war has become obsolete in the modern age, the adventures of the world powers suggests otherwise. (9/12/00)

Chalmers Johnson on an 'ersatz Roman Empire'
Source: Antiwar.com
Author: Joseph R. Stromberg
Country: United States

Chalmers Johnson, the author of "Blowback," sees the U.S. descending into the dangerous patterns of empire. (11/21/00)

Garet Garrett (1878-1954) on empire
Source: Antiwar.com
Author: Joseph Stromberg
Country: United States

"Garet Garrett was an interesting and articulate -– if, in the end, forlorn and hopeless -– critic of the system of US global meddling." (8/8/00)

Arrogance of power reborn: The imperial presidency and foreign policy in the Clinton years
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Gene Healy
Country: United States

This report examines the Clinton foreign policy and concludes that the "imperial presidency is as unconstrained and as menacing as it has been at any time since the Vietnam War." It is available in Adobe PDF. (12/13/00)

The private production of defence
Source: Journal of Libertarian Studies
Author: Hans-Herman Hoppe
Country: United States

Hoppe proposes that "the idea of collective security is a myth that provides no justification for the modern state, and that all security is and must be private." (Adobe Acrobat) (Winter 2000)

China syndrome
Source: Antiwar.com
Author: Joseph R. Stromberg
Country: United States

Stromberg details the complicated and tense history of relations between the United States and China. (04/10/01)

Post Mortem on the September 11th Attacks
Source: Promethea
Country: United States

"An in-depth and diverse examination of the implications, past causes, and future impact of the September 11th killings, focusing on the conceptual world surrounding that day of death. This collection of eight sections is devoted to making this aftermath an opportunity for learning, and is dedicated to the heroes of United Flight 93."

Hegel, well-regulated police states, and empire
Source: Antiwar.com
Author: Joseph Stromberg
Country: United States

"For all our vaunted 'rule of law' and 'natural rights,' it appears that we have acquiesced in, or even demanded, the militarization of American police, down to the local level. Prussianization, you might call it." (07/20/01)

Government & the Railroads During World War I
Source: Libertarian Alliance
Country: United States
E-mail: chris.sciabarra@nyu.edu

Sciabarra's first professionally published essay on political capitalism during World War I is re-published by Libertarian Alliance. Tightly written and relatively brief.

At a crossroads in Afghanistan
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Subodh Atal
Country: Afghanistan

"Afghanistan provides a model for a broader policy framework wherein American intervention would be confined to eliminating national security threats rather than getting entangled in counterproductive nation-building exercises around the globe." (PDF file) (9/03)

The end of the Orientalist critique
Source: Reason
Author: Charles Paul Freund
Country: United States

The "Orientalist" division of the world into West and East is breaking down in the wake of September 11. Given that the Orientalist critique obscures more than it reveals, it's about time. (11/12/01)

A history of folly
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Author: Adam Young
Country: United States

"'How do I respond when I see that in some Islamic countries there is vitriolic hatred for America? ... I just can't believe it, because I know how good we are.' --President George W. Bush. Before we celebrate the bombings of Afghanistan with hope of their expansion to other countries, let’s pause and take a look back on the past fifty years of U.S. folly in the Middle East." (11/09/01)

The new international criminal court: rush to jstice?
Source: National Legal Center for Public Interest
Author: David Davenport
Country: United States

The creation of an international criminal court has American facing a dilemma: should it join its allies in this new venture or should it protect its own sovereignty and decline to take part? (7/2002)

Bounding the global war on terrorism
Source: Strategic Studies Institute
Author: Jeffrey Record
Country: United States

The author examines three features of the war on terrorism...: (1) the administration's postulation of the terrorist threat, (2) the scope and feasibility of U.S. war aims, and (3) the war's political, fiscal, and military sustainability. (PDF file) (12/2003)

Twenty facts about Israel and the Middle East
Source: Empower America
Author: Bill Bennett, Jack Kemp and Jeane Kirkpatrick
Country: United States

"The world's attention has been focused on the Middle East. We are confronted daily with scenes of carnage and destruction. Can we understand such violence? Yes, but only if we come to the situation with a solid grounding in the facts of the matter-facts that too often are forgotten, if ever they were learned." (4/24/02)

The Empire strikes out: The New Imperialism and its fatal flaws
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Ivan Eland
Country: United States

This report examines the concept advanced by many commentators that the U.S. can achieve security through empire. "[T]he strategy of empire is likely to overstretch and bleed America's economy and its military and federal budgets, and the overextension could hasten the decline of the United States as a superpower, as it did the Soviet Union and Great Britain." (11/26/02)

Saddam Hussein's violations of the Geneva Convention
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Carrie Satterlee
Country: United States

Listing of war crimes committed by the Hussein regime while in power in Iraq. (4/17/03)

Why the United States should not attack Iraq
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Ivan Eland and Bernard Gourley
Country: United States

With the Bush Administration gearing up for military action against Iraq, Eland and Gourley argue that there are less costly strategies for dealing with Saddam Hussein that will achieve better results, be less risky in terms of casualties, and diminish the threat of retaliatory attacks by terrorists. (12/17/02)

Ending the obsolete Korean agreement
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Doug Bandow
Country: United States

South Korea is looking away from the U.S. for defense, the 37,000 U.S. troops are a "Cold War artifact", and they should be brought home. (PDF file) (5/7/03)

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