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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.
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“Iran and the Rogue Presidency” Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland appears on WLS radio in Chicago
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Ivan Eland on the Iranian Nuclear Agreement
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Partitioning Iraq for Peace
Mar. 31, 2015
Why Should We Care If Iran has a Nuclear Bomb?
Mar. 30, 2015
The Political Economy of Drones
Feb. 26, 2015
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