Tag: Democracy
The Presidential Election of 1972: Analysis of Soviet Bloc Opinion
Link to The Text Message, at the National Archives
Foreign Service Accounts from the Oral History Archives
August marks the 30th anniversary of the Burmese student pro-democracy demonstrations that began on “8/8/88”. The U.S. subsequently withdrew its ambassador in protest of the military regime, beginning a hiatus in relations that lasted until 2012.
Venezuela: A Situation Report
by Patrick Duddy Venezuela remains in crisis. Popular support for the so-called Bolivarian revolution and its socio-economic model known as twenty-first century socialism has eroded dramatically. Polling suggests there is a near consensus among Venezuelans that conditions are bad and … Read more
Authoritarian Backlash: A Comparison of Turkey & Venezuela
by Ambassador (ret.) Robert Pearson The Character of Democracy “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This famous opening line from Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is important also for democracies. While Turkey and … Read more
Democracy and Values of the Enlightenment Under Siege
by Marc Grossman Reprinted with permission from the author and YaleGlobal Online. http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/increasingly-authoritarian-world-can-people-embrace-enlightenment-20WASHINGTON: Many US Presidents since John F. Kennedy have cited the Enlightenment as the foundation for America’s constitutional system and the values which the United States and the … Read more
How the Presidential Transition Process Works
And Why This One Will Be Like No Other by Michael W. Cotter The sub-title is not quite accurate, since each administration transfer happens a bit differently. But not this different. At least in living memory there has not been … Read more
The Ineffectiveness of American Covert Regime Change Operations During the Struggle Against Islamist Terrorism
by Jason Cooley Introduction Following the September 11th terrorist attacks, the United States government embarked on a campaign to weaken the Islamic extremist organizations that were present in the world. Some of the steps that this lone superpower took to … Read more
Canada’s Midterm Blues: The Harper Government Hits Rocks
Review by James L. Abrahamson
American Public Opinion on the Iraq War
Review by Michael Schneider
American Public Opinion on the Iraq War by Ole Holsti, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011, ISBN-13: 9780472034802, pp. 238
Public Opinion and International Intervention: Lessons from the Iraq War
Review by Alan Kotok
Public Opinion and International Intervention: Lessons from the Iraq War, Edited by Richard Sobel, Peter Furia, and Bethany Barratt, Potomac Books: Dulles, VA, ISBN-13: 978-1-59797-492-9, 2012, 322 pp.
Just Over The Horizon in An Election Year
The Top Five Foreign Policy Challenges
by Ambassador Michael Cotter
Mideast Revolutions and Diplomacy
by Ambassador (ret) William Rugh, Ph.D. A distinguished retired diplomat with decades of experience in the region provides us with his look at the current turmoil in the Middle East, its promises and its pitfalls.–Ed. The events we have witnessed … Read more
Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy
Review by Henry E. Mattox
Michael H. Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy, Yale Univ. Press, 1987, Republished 2009, Afterword copyright 2009, ISBN 978-0300139259, 261 pp.