Category: America
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Is Poland America’s Most Important Partner in Europe?
Dylan Waste // Despite previously failing to amplify the voice of post-Soviet NATO members, there is ample opportunity for U.S. policies to further empower Poland’s emergence as a bulwark of American interests on the alliance’s integral Eastern flank.
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Why the U.S. Needs to Reassess Its Relationship With Turkey
Aiden Zhang // Given its detrimental effects on NATO’s ability to operate, Washington would be wise to recognize this shift in Turkish strategic thought and to reassess and deinstitutionalize the relationship accordingly.
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Haiti Needs Help, but the U.S. Needs To Change Before It Can Provide It
Xiomara Jean-Louis // Rather than wipe its hands of involvement after having contributed to Haiti’s squalor, the United States should shift from an interventionist view to a introspective one and reflect on how its policies create the conditions for harm outside its borders—intentionally or not.
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Liberal Interventionism and the Crisis of International Law
Julian Fisher // When the United States…enforced international law against an aggressive Iraq and brought war criminals to trial in Yugoslavia, all while embarking on its own aggressive wars and committing its own war crimes…left the lasting impression…that the international system is neither value-neutral nor necessarily liberal but merely subservient to hegemonic power.
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Why Intervening in Mexico Would Be Self-Defeating
Garrett Ehinger // Rather than treating this “cartel cancer” with a blunt butcher’s knife, the United States should pursue new approaches to securing the border, strengthening domestic law enforcement, and peacefully investing in protecting Mexican democracy.
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State-Sponsored Terrorism Is Back
Simeone Miller // As the United States faces strategic competition, it must be prepared to respond to the likely increase of state-sponsored terrorism in the coming years. In doing so, it must be cognizant of the blowback of responding to these threats with either unconventional or conventional military force as it has with Salafi-Jihadist terrorists.…
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The Importance of Gender Mainstreaming in Military Spaces
Girogia Piantanida // If the army vows to be fighting for freedom, equality and justice, then it cannot itself be against those values by excluding women and/or segregating them to low skilled positions. To fight for certain ideals, the military itself has a duty to represent those ideals.
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The Case for a Post-Ukraine Peace Dividend
Noah Schwartz // If we accept that the massive military presence we maintain is more of a threat to US democratic norms than Russia, the only option is a peace dividend of mass defense cuts.
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Hypocrisy Spells the End of American Exceptionalism
Rishab Chatty // When he entered office, President Joe Biden pledged to prioritize human rights in his foreign policy. To this day, the Biden Administration has seldom stayed true to this statement.
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The U.S. Would Be Insane to Intervene in Haiti
Scarlett Kennedy // As the violence in Haiti escalates, top policymakers have advocated for an American-backed military intervention on the troubled island. Foreign interventions have devastated Haiti time and again. There is no reason to think this time may be any different. In fact, it may be worse.