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Commentary

What’s the Biggest Threat to U.S. Security?

What’s the Biggest Threat to U.S. Security? While Americans are distracted by foreign wars and adversaries, the greatest threat to our republic comes from within.

Ivan Eland | Nov. 20, 2023

An American Lack of Introspection on Failed U.S. Foreign Policy

An American Lack of Introspection on Failed U.S. Foreign Policy: The American people must be shown that foreign policy crises don’t arrive out of the blue.

Ivan Eland | Oct. 5, 2023

Does China Have a Point About U.S. Encirclement?

Ivan Eland | Aug. 31, 2023

The GOP’s Wilsonian Mexico Policy

The GOP’s Wilsonian Mexico Policy: Authorizing military force in Mexico will not end the way they think.

Ivan Eland | July 13, 2023

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Book Reviews

Unreliable Watchdog: The News Media and U.S. Foreign Policy

Ted Galen Carpenter
Reviewed By Christopher J. Coyne

Unreliable Watchdog: The News Media and U.S. Foreign Policy

Ted Galen Carpenter
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

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

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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