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Commentary

Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Legacy

Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Legacy: In light of the news that Jimmy Carter has entered hospice care, it’s now time for analysts and the American people to seriously reassess his presidency.

Ivan Eland | Feb. 28, 2023

U.S. Should Allow Venezuela to Export More Oil

Ivan Eland | Jan. 3, 2023

Socialism Was Never Great

Socialism Was Never Great: Not even Mikhail Gorbachev could fix the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

K. Lloyd Billingsley | Sep. 9, 2022

NATO Bears Some Responsibility for the Ukraine Crisis

Ivan Eland | Jan. 22, 2022

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Book Reviews

The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

By Nicholas Mulder
Reviewed By Christopher J. Coyne

The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

By Nicholas Mulder
Reviewed By Christopher J. Coyne

Why We Fight: The Roots of War and Paths to Peace

By Christopher Blattman
Reviewed By Christopher J. Coyne

Why We Fight: The Roots of War and Paths to Peace

By Christopher Blattman
Reviewed By Christopher J. Coyne

America’s Rise and Fall among Nations: Lessons in Statecraft from ...

By Angelo M. Codevilla
Reviewed By Ivan Eland

America’s Rise and Fall among Nations: Lessons in Statecraft from John Quincy Adams

By Angelo M. Codevilla
Reviewed By Ivan Eland

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Research

How to Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite

By Christopher J. Coyne, et al.
The Independent Review | Apr. 1, 2023

The Values of Free Enterprise versus the New Populism in Latin America

By Carlos Rodríguez Braun
The Independent Review | July 1, 2012

The Law of National Guaranteed Banks in Argentina, 1887–1890: Free-Banking Failure ...

The Law of National Guaranteed Banks in Argentina, 1887–1890: Free-Banking Failure or Regulatory Failure?

By Nicolás Cachanosky
The Independent Review | Apr. 1, 2012

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Independent Institute Books

Videos

In Search of Monsters to Destroy | Christopher Coyne ...

“Limitations of Central Planning” Sr. Fellow ...

Chris Coyne Interviewed on “Free the People” ...

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

Full Video of The Independent Institute’s 25th ...

Ivan Eland on U.S. Embargo on Cuba

Ivan Eland on FARC’s Terrorist Status

Audio

In Search of Monsters to Destroy | Christopher Coyne and Mary L. G. Theroux
Feb. 28, 2023

Obama’s Historic Visit To Cuba is the Right Policy
Mar. 23, 2016

Why Liberty Is Failing in Latin America
May 14, 2004