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What Is Trump? To be worthy of following, post-Trump leadership must become consistent in deed with the insight that vaulted Donald Trump to public attention.

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Book Reviews

The Politics of War Powers: The Theory and History of Presidential ...

Sarah Burns
Reviewed By Nathan P. Goodman

The Politics of War Powers: The Theory and History of Presidential Unilateralism

Sarah Burns
Reviewed By Nathan P. Goodman

In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. ...

Alfred W. McCoy
Reviewed By Christopher J. Coyne

In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power

Alfred W. McCoy
Reviewed By Christopher J. Coyne

The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military ...

Eliot A. Cohen
Reviewed By Christopher J. Coyne

The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force

Eliot A. Cohen
Reviewed By Christopher J. Coyne

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Research

Polycentric Defense

Polycentric Defense

By Christopher J. Coyne, Nathan P. Goodman
The Independent Review | Sep. 1, 2020

Introduction: Symposium on Foreign Intervention

Introduction: Symposium on Foreign Intervention

By Christopher J. Coyne
The Independent Review | Sep. 1, 2016

The Case for Armed Intervention against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria

The Case for Armed Intervention against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria

By Fernando R. Tesón
The Independent Review | Sep. 1, 2016

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Ivan Eland: The Impact of War on the Presidency

Senior Fellow Ivan Eland on C-SPAN Discusses the History ...

Trump’s Afghanistan Strategy: Sr. Fellow Ivan ...

Russia and Afghanistan and President Trump— Sr. ...

Ivan Eland on Taliban’s POW Exchange

Ivan Eland appears on RT’s CrossTalk

Ivan Eland at CPAC 2013 “Too Many American Wars” ...

Anthony Gregory on Independent Watch: The Bellicosity ...

Anthony Gregory on the Costs of Conflict

Ivan Eland on the Death of Osama bin Laden

Ivan Eland on Afghanistan’s Private Security Crackdown

Ivan Eland on the 2014 Afghanistan Withdrawal Deadline

Can the U.S. Withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq?

Charles Peña on 8th Anniversary of Afghanistan ...

Robert Higgs on War, Taxes, and Economic Crises

The U.S. War on Terrorism: Myths and Realities

Audio

“US Troops Pulled out of Iraq” Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland appears on the Lars Larson radio show
May 16, 2019

“Iran and Iraq and the Threat of War” Ivan Eland appears on the Lars Larson radio show
May 16, 2019

“Ending the War in Afghanistan” Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland appears on the Lars Larson radio show
Mar. 6, 2019

Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland Interviewed on Doug Stephan’s Good Day Radio Show
Aug. 6, 2015

Ivan Eland on the Peter Schiff Show at CPAC 2013
Mar. 14, 2013

Charles V. Peña on the Need to Withdraw from Afghanistan
June 22, 2011

Charles Pena on CNBC, Explaining the Afghanistan Quagmire
July 2, 2010

Can the U.S. Withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq?
Dec. 9, 2009

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