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Analysis and Commentary

To Promote Nonproliferation, Kill The Iran Deal Now

by Jamil Jaffervia Wall Street Journal
Sunday, April 29, 2018

The Europeans won’t do business with Tehran if that means losing access to American banks.

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Area 45: North Korea – No Nukes?

interview with Thomas H. Henriksenvia Matters of Policy & Politics
Thursday, April 26, 2018

What is at stake on the Korean peninsula? Can we trust AND verify?

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Area 45: Melania - Citizen And Friend Of The World

interview with Markos Kounalakisvia Matters of Policy & Politics
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Central Europe – Melania’s Next Mission?

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Preserving A Great Scholar’s Legacy

by Tunku Varadarajan featuring Robert Conquestvia Wall Street Journal
Saturday, April 21, 2018

The widow of Robert Conquest talks about the life and work of the historian, including three books still forthcoming.

In the News

Speaking To The people

quoting Niall Fergusonvia Otago Daily Times
Friday, April 20, 2018

In his recent book, The Square and the Tower, Niall Ferguson makes the connection between this post-Reformation polarisation and the social media of our own day that has, similarly, opened up new ways of speaking to one another and past one another.

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Networks and Netizens

by Peter M. Robinson interview with Niall Fergusonvia Hoover Digest
Friday, April 20, 2018

Not too many years ago, we were still dreaming sweet dreams of a high-tech utopia. Now computer users have been awakened, rather rudely. Hoover fellow Niall Ferguson guides us through the new and often menacing reality.

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The Past Isn’t Even Past

by Stephen Kotkinvia Hoover Digest
Friday, April 20, 2018

A hundred years since it began consuming lives by the millions, the embers of communism still burn.

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The Classicist: Trump And The Gordian Knot

interview with Victor Davis Hansonvia The Classicist
Monday, April 16, 2018

How the President’s unorthodox approach to foreign policy is breaking longstanding logjams.

Analysis and Commentary

‘The Kremlinologist’ Review: A Starring Role Behind The Scenes

by Bertrand M. Patenaudevia Wall Street Journal
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Llewellyn Thompson’s quiet diplomacy and shrewd counsel relaxed Cold War tensions and made him the “unsung hero” of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Bertrand M. Patenaude reviews “The Kremlinologist” by Jenny Thompson and Sherry Thompson.

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“To Change the Church” With Ross Douthat

interview with Ross Douthatvia Uncommon Knowledge
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

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Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism. 

 

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Military History Working Group


The Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict examines how knowledge of past military operations can influence contemporary public policy decisions concerning current conflicts.