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    <title>The Old World Order is Dead - by Paul Musgrave</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>american_hegemony the_continuing_crises via:henry_farrell have_read</dc:subject>
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    <title>Opinion | Europe Has a Bazooka. Time to Use It. - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-07T20:36:04+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Why oh why is this illustrated with an EU-themed _anvil_, rather than a bazooka?!?]]></description>
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    <title>The Weaponized World Economy: Surviving the New Age of Economic Coercion</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The United States is faced with a choice: a world in which aggressive American coercion and U.S. hegemonic decline reinforce each other or one in which Washington realigns itself with other liberal-minded countries by forswearing the abuse of its unilateral powers. Not too long ago, American officials and many intellectuals perceived the age of weaponized interdependence and the age of American hegemony as one and the same. Such assumptions now seem outdated, as other countries gain these weapons, too. As during the nuclear era, the United States needs to turn away from unilateralism, toward détente and arms control, and, perhaps in the very long term, toward rebuilding an interdependent global economy on more robust foundations. A failure to do so will put both American security and American prosperity at risk."

--- Shorter Farrell & Newman: "you have no understanding of the consequences of what you do oh and one more thing you aren’t going to like what comes after America".]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Last tag is "to link to, in the part of the syllabus where I explain what we will not cover"]]></description>
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    <title>Funding the U.S. Scientific Training Ecosystem: New Data, Methods, and Evidence | NBER</title>
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--- The follow-up study from 2030 is going to have so much more statistical power!  (Assuming there's anyone left to care...)]]></description>
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    <title>Everything I, an Italian, thought I knew about Italian food is wrong | Financial Times</title>
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    <link>https://archive.is/4gwGh</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[USA! USA! USA!]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | What if the Coronavirus Crisis Is Just a Trial Run? - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2021-09-01T18:17:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/opinion/covid-pandemic-global-economy-politics.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is terrific, and terrifying.]]></description>
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    <title>Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia | Edward Schatz</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Negative views of the United States abound, but we know too little about how such views affect politics. Drawing on careful research on post-Soviet Central Asia, Edward Schatz argues that anti-Americanism is best seen not as a rising tide that swamps or as a conflagration that overwhelms. Rather, "America" is a symbolic resource that resides quietly in the mundane but always has potential value for social and political mobilizers. Using a wide range of evidence and a novel analytic framework, Schatz considers how Islamist movements, human rights activists, and labor mobilizers across Central Asia avail themselves of this fact, thus changing their ability to pursue their respective agendas. By refocusing our analytic gaze away from high politics, he affords us a clearer view of the slower-moving, partially occluded, and socially embedded processes that ground how "America" becomes political. In turn, we gain a nuanced appreciation of the downstream effects of US foreign policy choices and a sober sense of the challenges posed by the politics of traveling images.
"Most treatments of anti-Americanism focus on politics in the realm of presidential elections and foreign policies. By focusing instead on symbols, Schatz lays bare how changing public attitudes shift social relations in politically significant ways, and considers how changing symbolic depictions of the United States recombine the raw material available for social mobilizers. Just like sediment traveling along waterways before reaching its final destination, the raw material that constitutes symbolic America can travel among various social groups, and can settle into place to form the basis of new social meanings. Symbolic America, Schatz shows us, matters for politics in Central Asia and beyond."
]]></description>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:american_hegemony"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190916473.001.0001">
    <title>Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order - Oxford Scholarship</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-16T06:34:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190916473.001.0001</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We live in a period of uncertainty about the fate of American global leadership and the future of international order. The 2016 election of Donald Trump led many to pronounce the death, or at least terminal decline, of liberal international order—the system of institutions, rules, and values associated with the American-dominated international system. But the truth is that the unraveling of American global order began over a decade earlier. Exit from Hegemony develops an integrated approach to understanding the rise and decline of hegemonic orders. It calls attention to three drivers of transformation in contemporary order. First, great powers, most notably Russia and China, contest existing norms and values while simultaneously building new spheres of international order through regional institutions. Second, the loss of the “patronage monopoly” once enjoyed by the United States and its allies allows weaker states to seek alternative providers of economic and military goods—providers who do not condition their support on compliance with liberal economic and political principles. Third, transnational counter-order movements, usually in the form of illiberal and right-wing nationalists, undermine support for liberal order and the American international system, including within the United States itself. Exit from Hegemony demonstrates that these broad sources of transformation—from above, below, and within—have transformed past international orders and undermine prior hegemonic powers. It provides evidence that all three are, in the present, mutually reinforcing one another and, therefore, that the texture of world politics may be facing major changes.'

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<item rdf:about="https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoas/1608346893">
    <title>Gao , Goetz , Connelly , Mazumder : Mining events with declassified diplomatic documents</title>
    <dc:date>2020-12-19T16:41:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoas/1608346893</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Since 1973, the U.S. State Department has been using electronic record systems to preserve classified communications. Recently, approximately 1.9 million of these records from 1973–77 have been made available by the U.S. National Archives. While some of these communication streams have periods witnessing an acceleration in the rate of transmission, others do not show any notable patterns in communication intensity. Given the sheer volume of these communications, far greater than what had been available until now, scholars need automated statistical techniques to identify the communications that warrant closer study. We develop a statistical framework that can identify from a large corpus of documents a handful that historians would consider more interesting. Our approach brings together techniques from nonparametric signal estimation, statistical hypothesis testing and modern optimization methods—leading to a set of tools that help us identify and analyze various geometrical aspects of the communication streams. Dominant periods of heightened activities, as identified through these methods, correspond well with historical events recognized by standard reference works on the 1970s."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB time_series point_processes text_mining american_hegemony</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/01/us-coronavirus-leading-world-america-first/">
    <title>In the Coronavirus Pandemic, America Is Ailing—and Flexing Its Global Muscle Like Never Before</title>
    <dc:date>2020-04-01T20:09:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/01/us-coronavirus-leading-world-america-first/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The U.S. president’s coronavirus response is a contradictory, incoherent shambles. And many people will die as a result. But that doesn’t make this a post-American world. This is precisely what a world entangled with and exposed to America’s incoherent and erratic system of power looks like."]]></description>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f4d20cda46bb/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-organization/article/distribution-of-identity-and-the-future-of-international-order-chinas-hegemonic-prospects/6B178D9A058C016F6C7A50A089AA7290">
    <title>The Distribution of Identity and the Future of International Order: China's Hegemonic Prospects | International Organization | Cambridge Core</title>
    <dc:date>2019-11-25T15:14:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-organization/article/distribution-of-identity-and-the-future-of-international-order-chinas-hegemonic-prospects/6B178D9A058C016F6C7A50A089AA7290</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Existing theories predict that the rise of China will trigger a hegemonic transition and the current debate centers on whether or not the transition will be violent or peaceful. This debate largely sidesteps two questions that are central to understanding the future of international order: how strong is the current Western hegemonic order and what is the likelihood that China can or will lead a successful counterhegemonic challenge? We argue that the future of international order is shaped not only by material power but also by the distribution of identity across the great powers. We develop a constructivist account of hegemonic transition and stability that theorizes the role of the distribution of identity in international order. In our account, hegemonic orders depend on a legitimating ideology that must be consistent with the distribution of identity at the level of both elites and masses. We map the distribution of identity across nine great powers and assess how this distribution supports the current Western neoliberal democratic hegemony. We conclude that China is unlikely to become the hegemon in the near term."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB american_hegemony</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27429">
    <title>Full Spectrum Dominance: Irregular Warfare and the War on Terror | Maria Ryan</title>
    <dc:date>2019-09-26T18:48:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27429</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["America's war on terror is widely defined by the Afghanistan and Iraq fronts. Yet, as this book demonstrates, both the international campaign and the new ways of fighting that grew out of it played out across multiple fronts beyond the Middle East. Maria Ryan explores how secondary fronts in the Philippines, sub-Saharan Africa, Georgia, and the Caspian Sea Basin became key test sites for developing what the Department of Defense called "full spectrum dominance": mastery across the entire range of possible conflict, from conventional through irregular warfare.
"Full Spectrum Dominance is the first sustained historical examination of the secondary fronts in the war on terror. It explores whether irregular warfare has been effective in creating global stability or if new terrorist groups have emerged in response to the intervention. As the U.S. military, Department of Defense, White House, and State Department have increasingly turned to irregular capabilities and objectives, understanding the underlying causes as well as the effects of the quest for full spectrum dominance become ever more important. The development of irregular strategies has left a deeply ambiguous and concerning global legacy."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/06/27/the-pentagons-outsized-part-in-the-climate-fight/">
    <title>The Pentagon's Outsized Part in the Climate Fight | by Bill McKibben | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books</title>
    <dc:date>2019-07-29T18:40:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/06/27/the-pentagons-outsized-part-in-the-climate-fight/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>have_read climate_change us_military american_hegemony</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-04-16/time-different">
    <title>Why U.S. Foreign Policy Won't Recover From Donald Trump</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-25T04:13:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-04-16/time-different</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>american_hegemony us_politics our_decrepit_institutions have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:55fd3258cdef/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:our_decrepit_institutions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:have_read"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n07/adam-tooze/is-this-the-end-of-the-american-century">
    <title>Adam Tooze · Is this the end of the American century?: America Pivots · LRB 4 April 2019</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-04T04:27:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n07/adam-tooze/is-this-the-end-of-the-american-century</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As of today, two years into the Trump presidency, it is a gross exaggeration to talk of an end to the American world order. The two pillars of its global power – military and financial – are still firmly in place. What has ended is any claim on the part of American democracy to provide a political model. This is certainly a historic break. Trump closes the chapter begun by Woodrow Wilson in the First World War, with his claim that American democracy articulated the deepest feelings of liberal humanity. A hundred years later, Trump has for ever personified the sleaziness, cynicism and sheer stupidity that dominates much of American political life. What we are facing is a radical disjunction between the continuity of basic structures of power and their political legitimation.
"If America’s president mounted on a golf buggy is a suitably ludicrous emblem of our current moment, the danger is that it suggests far too pastoral a scenario: American power trundling to retirement across manicured lawns. That is not our reality. Imagine instead the president and his buggy careening around the five-acre flight deck of a $13 billion, Ford-class, nuclear-powered aircraft carrier engaged in ‘dynamic force deployment’ to the South China Sea. That better captures the surreal revival of great-power politics that hangs over the present. Whether this turns out to be a violent and futile rearguard action, or a new chapter in the age of American world power, remains to be seen."]]></description>
<dc:subject>tooze.adam the_continuing_crises us_politics american_hegemony have_read</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.sciencediplomacy.org/article/2013/making-pepfar">
    <title>Making PEPFAR | Science &amp; Diplomacy</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-03T14:09:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sciencediplomacy.org/article/2013/making-pepfar</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>to_read american_hegemony medicine aids foreign_policy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29268">
    <title>Under Contract: The Invisible Workers of America's Global War | Noah Coburn</title>
    <dc:date>2018-09-18T00:07:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29268</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["War is one of the most lucrative job markets for an increasingly global workforce. Most of the work on American bases, everything from manning guard towers to cleaning the latrines to more technical engineering and accounting jobs, has been outsourced to private firms that then contract out individual jobs, often to the lowest bidder. An "American" base in Afghanistan or Iraq will be staffed with workers from places like Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Turkey, Bosnia, and Nepal: so-called "third-country nationals." Tens of thousands of these workers are now fixtures on American bases. Yet, in the plethora of records kept by the U.S. government, they are unseen and uncounted—their stories untold.
"Noah Coburn traces this unseen workforce across seven countries, following the workers' often zigzagging journey to war. He confronts the varied conditions third-country nationals encounter, ranging from near slavery to more mundane forms of exploitation. Visiting a British Imperial training camp in Nepal, U.S. bases in Afghanistan, a café in Tbilisi, offices in Ankara, and human traffickers in Delhi, Coburn seeks out a better understanding of the people who make up this unseen workforce, sharing powerful stories of hope and struggle.
"Part memoir, part travelogue, and part retelling of the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of workers, Under Contract unspools a complex global web of how modern wars are fought and supported, narrating war stories unlike any other. Coburn's experience forces readers to reckon with the moral questions of a hidden global war-force and the costs being shouldered by foreign nationals in our name."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/vietnam-war-cambodia-ellsberg-pentagon-papers-kissinger">
    <title>War Without Reason</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-24T14:40:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/vietnam-war-cambodia-ellsberg-pentagon-papers-kissinger</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_military american_hegemony irrationalism decision_theory moral_psychology kissinger.henry ellsberg.daniel have_read vietnam_war</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:72a54211deea/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674971578">
    <title>America’s Dream Palace — Osamah F. Khalil | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2016-11-18T02:52:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674971578</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In T. E. Lawrence’s classic memoir Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence of Arabia claimed that he inspired a “dream palace” of Arab nationalism. What he really inspired, however, was an American idea of the area now called the Middle East that has shaped U.S. interventions over the course of a century, with sometimes tragic consequences. America’s Dream Palace brings into sharp focus the ways U.S. foreign policy has shaped the emergence of expertise concerning this crucial, often turbulent, and misunderstood part of the world.
"America’s growing stature as a global power created a need for expert knowledge about different regions. When it came to the Middle East, the U.S. government was initially content to rely on Christian missionaries and Orientalist scholars. After World War II, however, as Washington’s national security establishment required professional expertise in Middle Eastern affairs, it began to cultivate a mutually beneficial relationship with academic institutions. Newly created programs at Harvard, Princeton, and other universities became integral to Washington’s policymaking in the region. The National Defense Education Act of 1958, which aligned America’s educational goals with Cold War security concerns, proved a boon for Middle Eastern studies.
"But charges of anti-Americanism within the academy soon strained this cozy relationship. Federal funding for area studies declined, while independent think tanks with ties to the government flourished. By the time the Bush administration declared its Global War on Terror, Osamah Khalil writes, think tanks that actively pursued agendas aligned with neoconservative goals were the drivers of America’s foreign policy."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/books/review-how-everything-became-war-and-the-military-became-everything.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=0">
    <title>Review: ‘How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything’ - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2016-08-17T15:00:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/books/review-how-everything-became-war-and-the-military-became-everything.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=0</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>book_reviews us_military us_politics american_hegemony books:recommended books:owned</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ee012338e9c7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/4518.html">
    <title>Shafer, D.M.: Deadly Paradigms: The Failure of U.S. Counterinsurgency Policy. (eBook, Paperback and Hardcover)</title>
    <dc:date>2016-06-22T16:14:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/4518.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Michael Shafer argues that American policymakers have fundamentally misperceived the political context of revolutionary wars directed against American clients and that because American attempts at counterinsurgency were based on faulty premises, these efforts have failed in virtually every instance.
"Originally published in 1988."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted us_military american_hegemony counter-insurgency</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:501495afffd8/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://democracyjournal.org/magazine/40/our-overworked-security-bureaucracy/">
    <title>Our Overworked Security Bureaucracy : Democracy Journal</title>
    <dc:date>2016-03-17T01:47:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://democracyjournal.org/magazine/40/our-overworked-security-bureaucracy/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I seriously doubt that our current situation is really a more complex environment than dealing with a genuinely rival super-power, multiple decaying European empires (with which were allied), their opponents and succesors (which we wanted to court against the Soviets), _and_ much slower communications (and so more uncertainty).
But that's separate from whether the security bureaucracy isn't over-taxed in unhelpful ways; in particular, by not having time to think.]]></description>
<dc:subject>american_hegemony us_military our_decrepit_institutions have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e21662b3e22d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://harpers.org/archive/2014/04/kennan-kvetches/1/">
    <title>[Reviews] | Kennan Kvetches, by Andrew J. Bacevich | Harper's Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2015-12-29T16:31:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://harpers.org/archive/2014/04/kennan-kvetches/1/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The combination of a messianic self-image with contempt for those whom he wished to save, and the track-record of bad forecasts, are entirely legitimate attacks on him as a public figure.  But surely it's a bit harsh to condemn someone for thoughts expressed in the privacy of a diary?  I agree they are not good thoughts, but many people have bad thoughts and feel better for giving them expression in a way which doesn't hurt anyone else --- like writing them down in a diary.  Did he, as a public person, act on these?]]></description>
<dc:subject>running_dogs_of_reaction american_hegemony via:? have_read to:blog</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:106493dae480/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://sup.org/books/title/?id=25447">
    <title>The Polythink Syndrome: U.S. Foreign Policy Decisions on 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and ISIS | Alex Mintz and Carly Wayne</title>
    <dc:date>2015-12-28T01:27:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://sup.org/books/title/?id=25447</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Why do presidents and their advisors often make sub-optimal decisions on military intervention, escalation, de-escalation, and termination of conflicts?
"The leading concept of group dynamics, groupthink, offers one explanation: policy-making groups make sub-optimal decisions due to their desire for conformity and uniformity over dissent, leading to a failure to consider other relevant possibilities. But presidential advisory groups are often fragmented and divisive. This book therefore scrutinizes polythink, a group decision-making dynamic whereby different members in a decision-making unit espouse a plurality of opinions and divergent policy prescriptions, resulting in a disjointed decision-making process or even decision paralysis.
"The book analyzes eleven national security decisions, including the national security policy designed prior to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the decisions to enter into and withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq, the 2007 "surge" decision, the crisis over the Iranian nuclear program, the UN Security Council decision on the Syrian Civil War, the faltering Kerry Peace Process in the Middle East, and the U.S. decision on military operations against ISIS.
"Based on the analysis of these case studies, the authors address implications of the polythink phenomenon, including prescriptions for avoiding and/or overcoming it, and develop strategies and tools for what they call Productive Polythink. The authors also show the applicability of polythink to business, industry, and everyday decisions."

--- I am... intrigued, for want of a better word, by the idea that the problem with the US decision to invade Iraq was that too many people considered too many different options.]]></description>
<dc:subject>in_NB books:noted the_continuing_crises us_military american_hegemony us-iraq_war decision-making social_life_of_the_mind re:democratic_cognition</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo17607479">
    <title>The American Warfare State: The Domestic Politics of Military Spending, Thorpe</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-17T19:29:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo17607479</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>books:noted us_military us_politics american_hegemony military_industrial_complex in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d0ec92b6de7b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117174/george-f-kennans-diaries-reviewed">
    <title>George F. Kennan's Diaries, Reviewed | New Republic</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-22T13:12:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117174/george-f-kennans-diaries-reviewed</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Portrait of the (brilliant) foreign policy intellectual as self-pitying anti-democratic bigot.]]></description>
<dc:subject>american_hegemony american_history kennan.george lives_of_the_scholars racism moral_psychology running_dogs_of_reaction intellectuals_in_politics cold_war via:? have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:959b86366926/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&amp;aid=1028252">
    <title>American Political Science Review - Abstract - What's at Stake in the American Empire Debate</title>
    <dc:date>2014-03-11T19:37:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&amp;aid=1028252</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Scholars of world politics enjoy well-developed theories of the consequences of unipolarity or hegemony, but have little to say about what happens when a state's foreign relations take on imperial properties. Empires, we argue, are characterized by rule through intermediaries and the existence of distinctive contractual relations between cores and their peripheries. These features endow them with a distinctive network-structure from those associated with unipolar and hegemonic orders. The existence of imperial relations alters the dynamics of international politics: processes of divide and rule supplant the balance-of-power mechanism; the major axis of relations shift from interstate to those among imperial authorities, local intermediaries, and other peripheral actors; and preeminent powers face special problems of legitimating their bargains across heterogeneous audiences. We conclude with some observations about the American empire debate, including that the United States is, overall, less of an imperial power than it was during the Cold War."]]></description>
<dc:subject>imperialism american_hegemony in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:7c8c5981233c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/11/the-morgenthau-plan-and-the-marshall-plan.html">
    <title>Brad DeLong : The Morgenthau Plan and the Marshall Plan</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-29T02:02:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/11/the-morgenthau-plan-and-the-marshall-plan.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>via:jwmason economic_policy economic_history europe american_hegemony american_history WWII delong.brad</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:cc3f9916b6d1/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2012/11/05/what-wont-change-i/">
    <title>What Won’t Change (I) | Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-05T22:00:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2012/11/05/what-wont-change-i/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tim Burke articulates my fears (not convictions, yet).]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_politics american_hegemony imperialism national_surveillance_state our_national_shame our_decrepit_institutions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:148b7a266ee3/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8667.html">
    <title>Stuart, D.T.: Creating the National Security State: A History of the Law That Transformed America.</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-03T17:17:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8667.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For the last sixty years, American foreign and defense policymaking has been dominated by a network of institutions created by one piece of legislation--the 1947 National Security Act. This is the definitive study of the intense political and bureaucratic struggles that surrounded the passage and initial implementation of the law. Focusing on the critical years from 1937 to 1960, Douglas Stuart shows how disputes over the lessons of Pearl Harbor and World War II informed the debates that culminated in the legislation, and how the new national security agencies were subsequently transformed by battles over missions, budgets, and influence during the early cold war.
"Stuart provides an in-depth account of the fight over Truman's plan for unification of the armed services, demonstrating how this dispute colored debates about institutional reform. He traces the rise of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the transformation of the CIA, and the institutionalization of the National Security Council. He also illustrates how the development of this network of national security institutions resulted in the progressive marginalization of the State Department."]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted cold_war us_military american_history american_hegemony bureaucracy national_security_state in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:70b24091ef96/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2012/02/22/the-world-economy-is-not-a-tribute-system/">
    <title>The world economy is not a tribute system — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-22T13:03:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2012/02/22/the-world-economy-is-not-a-tribute-system/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Indeed.  (Let me add that the idea of explaining the US current account deficit as imperial tribute is an idea which occurs to many bright, cynical 19 year olds, but just does not work when you think it through.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics political_economy graeber.david farrell.henry american_hegemony us-iraq_war</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:af32e371397d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=978-0307408419">
    <title>State vs. Defense: The Battle to Define America's Empire by Stephen Glain - Powell's Books</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-11T14:21:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=978-0307408419</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There can't be too many books blurbed both by Bacevich and by Gen. Zinni, can there?]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted the_continuing_crises us_military american_hegemony us_foreign_policy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:08e36d7d295c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/talk-about-the-adjustable-peg-man/">
    <title>Talk about the adjustable peg, man! « The Edge of the American West</title>
    <dc:date>2010-01-19T00:18:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/talk-about-the-adjustable-peg-man/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>political_economy bretton_woods new_deal american_hegemony rauchway.eric progressive_forces to:blog</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:12939e42e911/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2009/04/fleetcom?currentPage=all">
    <title>The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-08T16:45:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2009/04/fleetcom?currentPage=all</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>crime us_military brazil american_hegemony space via:bruces</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:5ac5ca9bb24a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:brazil"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/011632.html">
    <title>Making Light: September 11</title>
    <dc:date>2009-09-11T21:30:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/011632.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Today marks a grim anniversary, a day when a few fanatics, equipped and secretly encouraged by foreign ideologues, struck a violent blow against normal, civil, democratic society. In the years that followed, the events of that day led to further tragedy, as a once-civilized country turned to the widespread practice of torture. Perhaps now at last we can gain some perspective on this history, and better understand what the defense of a democratic society demands of us.  --- Today is also the anniversary of an attack on New York City and Washington, DC."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>the_continuing_crises the_nightmare_from_which_we_are_trying_to_awake 9/11 chile american_hegemony moral_responsibility our_national_shame nielsen_hayden.patrick</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:687a4ec6bc8b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2009/0907.bergen.html">
    <title>Winning the Good War - Peter Bergen</title>
    <dc:date>2009-07-16T12:20:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2009/0907.bergen.html</link>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:941615083147/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://hdtd.typepad.com/hdtd/2007/09/north-of-south-.html">
    <title>Halfway down the Danube: North of south, or the economic consequences of Elliott Abrams</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-27T04:41:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://hdtd.typepad.com/hdtd/2007/09/north-of-south-.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>panama economics banking money economic_policy american_hegemony yu.carlos noriega.manuel abrams.elliott</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=7853">
    <title>Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968 - Bradley R. Simpson</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-14T01:55:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=7853</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>books:noted development_policy american_hegemony indonesia but_hes_our_evil_bastard gives_economists_a_bad_name</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f26ba0ded8fe/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.cdi.org/pdfs/AmericasDefenseMeltdownFullText.pdf">
    <title>America's Defense Meltdown: Pentagon Reform for President Obama and the New Congress</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-23T14:44:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cdi.org/pdfs/AmericasDefenseMeltdownFullText.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Recommended by James Fallows.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_military us_politics our_decrepit_institutions the_continuing_crises american_hegemony public_policy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080714/ackerman/print">
    <title>The CIA's Failures</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-16T14:51:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080714/ackerman/print</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>cia american_hegemony imperialism cold_war the_continuing_crises ackerman.spencer intelligence_(spying)</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:bbcd5ea64ac4/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:ackerman.spencer"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i8649.pdf">
    <title>Rick Perlstein, Introduction to _Richard Nixon_</title>
    <dc:date>2008-07-29T15:44:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i8649.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[in which Perlstein condenses _Nixonland_ by a factor of 10.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>whats_gone_wrong_with_america the_cold_war us-vietnam_war american_hegemony perlstein.rick running_dogs_of_reaction nixon.richard_m.</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f31ce4a8027a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:perlstein.rick"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/oil_and_democracy.php">
    <title>Matthew Yglesias: Oil and Democracy</title>
    <dc:date>2008-07-29T01:23:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/oil_and_democracy.php</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Reform is hard. Promoting reform is harder. Promoting reform in the name of cheap oil and military domination is almost certainly impossible."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>us-iraq_war the_continuing_crises foreign_policy american_hegemony imperialism yglesias.matthew</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e5f745e856d5/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080714/ackerman">
    <title>The American Way of Spying</title>
    <dc:date>2008-07-02T01:12:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080714/ackerman</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>american_hegemony the_continuing_crises imperialism our_decrepit_institutions decline_of_American_character CIA ackerman.spencer the_cold_war book_reviews intelligence_(spying)</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:5ff1f5de4b15/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:american_hegemony"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_appeasement_paradox">
    <title>The Appeasement Paradox | The American Prospect</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-24T14:42:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_appeasement_paradox</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["They're acting, in short, like the demonic foreigners of their own anti-appeasement rhetoric, impervious to objective reality and hell-bent on total victory no matter what the cost or how dim the prospects of success."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_politics american_hegemony foreign_policy diplomacy appeasement yglesias.matthew running_dogs_of_reaction</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:27a84ce0e46e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-bacevich13-2008may13,0,7251551.story">
    <title>The 'Long War' fallacy - Los Angeles Times</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-21T05:45:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-bacevich13-2008may13,0,7251551.story</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>bacevich.andrew_j. american_hegemony the_continuing_crises via:abu_m</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:adb6bfbf67d9/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=iron_man_vs_the_imperialists">
    <title>Iron Man Versus the Imperialists | The American Prospect</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-18T00:03:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=iron_man_vs_the_imperialists</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>comics movies imperialism american_hegemony ackerman.spencer</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:0398f8738554/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=04&amp;year=2008&amp;base_name=it_is_a_curiosity_of_human_nat#106170">
    <title>&quot;It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power.&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-01T03:05:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=04&amp;year=2008&amp;base_name=it_is_a_curiosity_of_human_nat#106170</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I knew Fulbright was against the Vietnam War, but - this was a _United States Senator_ saying these things, in _1966_.  Could we produce anyone like this today? (Minus the Dixiecrat crap, thx.)
]]></description>
<dc:subject>vietnam_war american_hegemony arrogance ethics perlstein.rick decline_of_American_character imperialism fulbright.j._william</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5471">
    <title>Open Left:: Something New in the Huge Arsenal of Human Follies</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-30T18:03:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5471</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[War as public relations exercise, the goal being to project an image of strength.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>meyer.david arendt.hannah us-iraq_war vietnam_war stab-in-the-back propaganda natural_history_of_truthiness american_hegemony via:yglesias</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:2bb32bf2c2da/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_militarist">
    <title>The Militarist | The American Prospect</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-29T21:18:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_militarist</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Shorter Matthew Yglesias: For McCain, endless imperialist wars aren't a bug, they're a feature.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>imperialism american_hegemony mccain.john us_politics the_continuing_crises war_is_the_health_of_the_state yglesias.matthew running_dogs_of_reaction</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:a59dbe8a90af/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://thinkprogress.org/attackerman/2008/04/22/kimholmesisoutofhismind/">
    <title>It’s A Wonder That You Still Know How To Breathe (Attackerman)</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-26T20:59:16+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Iraq war is an unmitigated catastrophe. There is no bright side. There is no silver lining. Everything is a wasteland of despair and there is only an obligation — a sacred, patriotic obligation — to make things right again."
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    <link>http://fafblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/why-we-fight.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Fafblog continues to be the only source of news able to deal with current reality at its own level.
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    <link>http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_obama_doctrine</link>
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    <dc:date>2008-03-25T02:49:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2008/03/a-grand-strategy-of-sustainmen/</link>
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    <title>The Right Choice?</title>
    <dc:date>2008-03-25T02:48:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.amconmag.com/2008/2008_03_24/article.html</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4813">
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    <dc:date>2008-03-19T15:30:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4813</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>books:noted american_hegemony cooley.alexander</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2007/08/spirit.html">
    <title>Lawyers, Guns and Money: The Spirit</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-24T02:29:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2007/08/spirit.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As the currently most advanced weapon system in the US arsenal, the B-2 is the star of the moment for a particular concept of war; one that envisions the destruction of whomever the US chooses whenever we choose without significant cost to ourselves."
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<item rdf:about="http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/02/mccain_and_the_missiles.php">
    <title>McCain and the Missiles: Matthew Yglesias</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-21T21:23:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/02/mccain_and_the_missiles.php</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["we need to spend huge sums of money and encourage an enormous amount of nuclear proliferation because that would facilitate the launching of new aggressive wars"
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<item rdf:about="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-bacevich11feb11,0,4434687.story">
    <title>NATO at twilight - Los Angeles Times</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-11T19:37:03+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>afghanistan the_continuing_crises american_hegemony NATO bacevich.andrew_j. via:?</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/magazine/10gates-t.html">
    <title>The Professional - Fred Kaplan</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-10T15:24:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/magazine/10gates-t.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Profile of the secretary of defense.  This is one of the (comparatively) sane ones, but - oy, oy, oy.
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    <title>The State of the American Empire</title>
    <dc:date>2007-11-14T19:53:12+00:00</dc:date>
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