online archive
5:00PM
OCT 24 2007
Foreign policy roundup
From the Journal of Third World Studies, Michael Hall (AASU): The Impact of the U.S. Peace Corps at Home and Abroad. From International Security, Charles A. Kupchan (Georgetown) and Peter L. Trubowitz (UT-Austin): Dead Center: The Demise of Liberal Internationalism in the United States. From Foreign Affairs, Richard K. Betts (Columbia): A Disciplined Defense: How to Regain Strategic Solvency; Philip H. Gordon (Brookings): Can the War on Terror Be Won? How to Fight the Right War; and a review of The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. A review of Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism and Guerrilla War, From the American Revolution to Iraq by William R. Polk. From the CIA's Studies in Intelligence, a review of Legacy of Ashes: The History of CIA by Tim Weiner (and more). Why did a brilliant, left-leaning Democrat fall for the ultimate bad boy, George W Bush? Christopher Hitchens reviews Condoleezza Rice: Naked Ambition by Marcus Mabry and The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy by Glenn Kessler. There's more to Freedom’s Watch than meets the eye. Juan Cole on the collapse of Bush's foreign policy: From Turkey to Iraq to Pakistan, the mounting chaos proves the White House is just winging it. Walter Russell Mead on failing upward: Relax, America will survive George W. Bush.
