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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

Can the United States Ever Get Foreign Policy Right?

Can the United States Ever Get Foreign Policy Right? Biden—having long drunk the Kool-Aid that U.S. alliances “won the Cold War” and should continue as they are in perpetuity—is seemingly taking risky moves that could result in war with the nuclear powers of China and Russia.

Ivan Eland | Nov. 16, 2021

Don’t Commit to Defense of Taiwan

Don’t Commit to Defense of Taiwan: The island can take care of itself without the United States ending its public ambiguity in favor of an explicit alliance.

Ivan Eland | Oct. 15, 2021

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Book Reviews

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

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

The Price of Prestige: Conspicuous Consumption in International Relations

By Lilach Gilady
Reviewed By Jessica Trisko Darden

The Price of Prestige: Conspicuous Consumption in International Relations

By Lilach Gilady
Reviewed By Jessica Trisko Darden

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Research

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

Portugal’s Plight: The Role of Social Democracy

By George Bragues
The Independent Review | Jan. 1, 2012

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Why Liberty Is Failing in Latin America
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