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Talking with the Taliban | Heather Hurlburt
There's no immediate prospect of top Taliban negotiating with the US, but Washington talk about the issue is still relevantThe newest breathless story about the Obama White House supposedly making a...
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The US must see past the 'Iranian plot' to the bigger picture | Heather Hurlburt
Regional politics in the Middle East are in transition: the US needs to overhaul the convention wisdom of its foreign policyThe Middle East refuses to let us sink into our US and European stovepipes,...
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Iran: overheated rhetoric and US policy | Heather Hurlburt
Speculation about military action against Iran has spiked again: in reality, diplomacy goes on, but the risk of misjudgment growsIn the past week, it seems as if every leading Israeli political and...
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Why Jim Yong Kim would make a great World Bank president | Heather Hurlburt
Obama's pick from outside the Wall Street club is an innovator capable of reinventing the bank's role in global financeThe early, breathless tweeting that President Obama's nominee for the World Bank...
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Why Mitt Romney's sabre-rattling on Syria signifies nothing | Heather Hurlburt
Unless Romney can answer how arming rebels would not make a bad situation worse, his proposal looks like a ploy, not policySyria's Dante-esque hell is now having its five minutes in the spotlight of...
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Paul Ryan's Middle East muddle: why this is nothing 'like 1979 Tehran' |...
Ryan's callow attempt to claim the mantle of Ronald Reagan reveals the Republican presidential team's foreign policy naivetyThis week, GOP vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan topped off a critique of...
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The Denver presidential debate: panel verdict
The first presidential debate saw the candidates competing for command of policy detail. Our expert pundits say who prevailedMichael Cohen: 'Even a passable performance was going to earn Romney...
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Cuban missile crisis: are we safer now than we were 50 years ago? | Heather...
Classic deterrence theory depended on a relatively controllable nuclear interdependence. Our post cold war world is less stableFifty years after the Cuban missile crisis, three generations of American...
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The Boca Raton presidential debate on foreign policy: panel verdict
Obama was belligerent. Romney played the peacenik. So who won the debate? Our panel of foreign policy experts decidesHeather Hurlburt: 'Obama scored zinger after zinger'We heard a lot of talk right...
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Mali's crisis caused by development failures, not military aid | Heather...
US military planners failed to anticipate Mali's collapse in the face of Islamist rebels, but the west let the rot set in years beforeOne might think, from reading the breathless newspaper coverage,...
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Decoding the cable leak about 'chemical weapons in Homs' | Heather Hurlburt
Assad may be testing US reaction; the opposition is pushing for international action. But Syria already has a humanitarian crisisDoes it matter whether the Assad regime unleashed toxic chemicals on a...
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President Obama's state of the union 2013: panel verdict
President Obama laid out an ambitious plan, but did Americans buy it? Guardian contributors weigh inJim Antle: 'Bipartisanship isn't simply agreeing with the president'President Obama began his state...
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If B61 nuclear bombs' strategic purpose is unclear, why spend more on them? |...
The controversy about upgrading US tactical weapons is a microcosm of unresolved issues over Pentagon budget cutsThe Obama administration's 2014 defense budget, with its proposal to cut $460m from...
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Washington's next moves after the Egyptian military's bloody crackdown |...
The debate about whether the Obama administration should call Morsi's ouster 'a coup' is over. A swift, smart rethink is requiredAny discussion of Washington's next steps over Egypt must begin with a...
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Nuclear diplomacy, not force, offers the safest, surest route to rein in Iran...
Iran's economy and regional power are both at a low ebb. That makes this a good moment for the west to get a nuclear dealWith the latest round of nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 world powers...
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By rejecting the use of cowboy diplomacy, the US and allies have managed to lasso Iran and win international supportToday's announcement that Iran has built a secret, illegal uranium enrichment...
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Iran presents the US with complex problems but the sterile rhetoric of the Bush administration remains firmly in the pastIran presents a complex problem for the White House, which requires a...
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