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"America's Alliances Are Costly Relics," by Justin Logan, DefenseNews, November 9, 2009

"DIY Defense," by Doug Bandow, National Interest (Online), September 30, 2009

"No More Troops for Afghanistan," by Malou Innocent, Huffington Post, September 16, 2009

"Answering Questions About Afghanistan," by Stanley Kober, RealClearWorld.com, September 14, 2009

"Win, Hold and Lose," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), September 1, 2009

"The Limits of US Influence," by Stanley Kober, Guardian, August 20, 2009

"Blank Checks," by Doug Bandow, National Interest (Online), July 20, 2009

"More Friends, More War," by Doug Bandow, National Interest (Online), July 13, 2009

"NATO Gains Weight," by Doug Bandow, National Interest (Online), June 25, 2009

"Proliferated Nonsense," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), May 20, 2009

"US, Pakistan Need to Bridge Afghan Divide," by Malou Innocent, South China Morning Post, May 14, 2009

"Obama Must Move beyond Pseudo-Events," by Leon T. Hadar, Lebanon Daily Star, May 11, 2009

"Klaus Encounters," by Doug Bandow, American Spectator, May 11, 2009

"What's NATO for Again?," by Doug Bandow, American Spectator, May 4, 2009

"Paper Promises vs. Real Costs," by Doug Bandow, Washington Times, April 22, 2009

"The U.N.'s Global Green Raw Deal," by Patrick J. Michaels, National Review (Online), April 9, 2009

"The Forgotten People," by Nat Hentoff, Washington Times, April 6, 2009

"The Feckless Alliance," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), April 6, 2009

"Old NATO Turns 60," by Doug Bandow, American Spectator, April 2, 2009

"A Sovereign State of Evil," by Nat Hentoff, Washington Times, March 23, 2009

"Theory Is Fine, Action Is Better," by David Isenberg, United Press International, March 20, 2009

"Surging toward Failure in Afghanistan," by Malou Innocent, Guardian, March 20, 2009

"Fight Drugs or Terrorists — But Not Both," by Ted Galen Carpenter and David Rittgers, Guardian, March 6, 2009

"Kosovo a Year Later," by Doug Bandow, American Spectator, February 23, 2009

"NATO's Welfare Bums," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), February 19, 2009

"Lazy Allies," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), February 2, 2009

"U.N. Forbids Defaming Religion, Especially Islam," by Nat Hentoff, Washington Times, February 2, 2009

"Bush's Legacy: The End of an Error," by Malou Innocent, Cato.org, January 26, 2009

"What Obama Should Do in Pakistan," by Malou Innocent, Huffington Post, January 23, 2009

"A Fresh Take on Afghanistan," by Malou Innocent, The Wall Street Journal Asia, January 20, 2009

"America's Imperiled Military Lifeline through Pakistan," by Malou Innocent and Ted Galen Carpenter, Dallas Morning News, December 28, 2008

"Escaping the Afghan Quicksand," by Malou Innocent, The Daily Star, December 18, 2008

"Worse than Bush?," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), November 7, 2008

"US Urged to Overhaul Nuclear Arsenal," by David Isenberg, Asia Times, November 4, 2008

"Losing Sleep over SOFA," by David Isenberg, United Press International, October 31, 2008

"Questionable Deals in a Volatile Region," by Malou Innocent and Christopher Preble, South China Morning Post, October 27, 2008

"Don't Expand NATO," by Benjamin H. Friedman and Justin Logan, World Politics Review, October 22, 2008

"What Russia Wants," by Ted Galen Carpenter, American Conservative, September 18, 2008

"The Limits of Deterrence," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), September 3, 2008

"Woodrow Wilson's War," by Justin Logan, National Review (Online), August 21, 2008

"Czechoslovakia on Their Minds," by Leon T. Hadar, American Conservative, August 18, 2008

"On Thin Ice," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), August 14, 2008

"Preliminary Conclusions From The War In Georgia," by Andrei Illarionov, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, August 13, 2008

"Poking the Bear," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), July 29, 2008

"A Plan B for Pyongyang," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), July 14, 2008

"The Babysitter's Club," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), April 4, 2008

"Don't 'Pull an Iraq' in Afghanistan," by Benjamin H. Friedman, Christian Science Monitor, April 3, 2008

"The Guns of April," by Leon T. Hadar, American Conservative, March 24, 2008

"Kosovo Independence Grenade," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Middle East Times, February 22, 2008

"NATO's West Bank Nightmare," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), February 20, 2008

"NATO Must Succeed in Afghanistan," by Stanley Kober, Washington Times, January 24, 2008

"Is There a Proliferation 'Hysteria'?," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), October 9, 2007

"America's Baltic Time Bomb," by Ted Galen Carpenter, South China Morning Post, May 24, 2007

"War with Iran Is Not the Answer," by Justin Logan, USA TODAY (MAGAZINE), March 1, 2007

"3 Cheers on the Pyongyang Deal? Maybe Not," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Star Telegram, February 16, 2007

"Evidence Suggests Iran Wouldn't Pull Nuclear Trigger," by Justin Logan and Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato.org, February 7, 2007

"Nuclear Neighbors Might Thwart N. Korea," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Chicago Sun-Times, November 11, 2006

"What to Do Before Tehran Gets the Bomb," by Ted Galen Carpenter, SFGate.com, October 25, 2006

"Putting Nuclear Security on the G-8's Agenda," by Rensselaer Lee, Cato.org, July 14, 2006

"Don't Needlessly Antagonize Russia," by Ted Galen Carpenter and Justin Logan, Cato.org, July 14, 2006

"Don't Count on Japan's Support for Sanctions," by Christopher Preble, The Baltimore Sun, June 29, 2006

"Let the African Union Intervene in Darfur," by Christopher Preble, Reason (Online), April 13, 2006

"U.S. Allies Bring Little to Table in Iraq, Afghanistan," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Chicago Sun-Times, February 11, 2006

"NATO Insists on Poking Russian Bear," by Justin Logan and Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato.org, January 19, 2006

"America on Its Own in Iraq War," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Knight-Ridder, November 23, 2005

"Blair in a Pickle," by Patrick Basham, American Spectator (Online), July 29, 2005

"Britain's Blitz Spirit," by Jamie Dettmer, Washington Times, July 28, 2005

"Rethinking Non-Proliferation," by Ted Galen Carpenter and Charles V. Peña, National Interest, June 1, 2005

"One Vatican Promise to Keep," by Doug Bandow, American Spectator, April 21, 2005

"Alliances and Counter-alliances in Asia," by Stanley Kober, Fox News (Online), April 17, 2005

"Bolton In," by Doug Bandow, National Review (Online), April 8, 2005

"Europe: Friend or Foe?," by Doug Bandow, TownHall.com, March 14, 2005

"The World Harm Organization," by Doug Bandow, American Spectator, February 24, 2005

"Bush: 1914, 1938, 2005," by Christopher Preble, Philadelphia Inquirer, February 24, 2005

"An Uncoupled Europe Ahead?," by Marian L. Tupy, Washington Times, June 30, 2004

"Beijing Smothers Hong Kong -- and Drives Taiwan Farther Away," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Apple Daily, June 2, 2004

"Europe's New Oppressors," by Richard W. Rahn, Washington Times, June 1, 2004

"Mitteleuropa: German Threat Resurgent," by Marian L. Tupy, Cato.org, April 14, 2004

"Spanish Flu: Paying the price for America's mistake," by Doug Bandow, Reason, March 15, 2004

"Sink the Law of the Sea Treaty," by Doug Bandow, Weekly Standard, March 15, 2004

"Making U.S. Voters Happier, Not Safer," by Doug Bandow, Japan Times, December 28, 2003

"Betting on Bulgaria," by Richard W. Rahn, Washington Times, November 16, 2003

"Bush's North Korea Gambit," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Fox News (Online), October 24, 2003

"Making Sense Out of Russia's Free Trade Initiative," by Marian L. Tupy, Investor's Business Daily, October 24, 2003

"Mystery of the Vanishing Weapons," by Alan Reynolds, Washington Times, October 12, 2003

"Distinguishing Friends from Adversaries," by Doug Bandow, Korea Herald, September 25, 2003

"Acid Test for North Korea," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Washington Times, September 22, 2003

"Supremacy Is America's Weakness," by Christopher Layne, Financial Times, August 13, 2003

"Comparing the U.S. and EU Constitutions," by William A. Niskanen, Taipei Times, August 4, 2003

"U.S. Empire? Let's Get Real," by Leon T. Hadar, Los Angeles Times, July 2, 2003

"Socialism's Farewell Note," by Marian L. Tupy, Cato.org, July 2, 2003

"Free Trade, Not Lots Of Aid, Should Be U.S.' Focus In Iraq," by Ian Vásquez, Investor's Business Daily, May 12, 2003

"Markets Created a Pot of Gold in Ireland," by Benjamin Powell, Fox News (Online), April 15, 2003

"The Realignment of the World," by Stanley Kober, South China Morning Post, April 3, 2003

"Why Boycotting Wine Won't Work," by Alan Reynolds, Washington Times, March 23, 2003

"Constructive Revenge," by Richard W. Rahn, Washington Times, March 20, 2003

"Time to Disagree Without Being Disagreeable," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Financial Times, March 10, 2003

"Europe's New Constitution: Philadelphia It Is Not," by Patrick Basham and Marian L. Tupy, Scripps Howard, March 4, 2003

"From the Old, Heralding in the New," by Marian L. Tupy, National Review, March 3, 2003

"Why Hasn't Saddam Killed Us All?," by Doug Bandow, Bangkok Post, February 12, 2003

"The Economic Ruin of Europe," by Richard W. Rahn, Washington Times, February 6, 2003

"Let Britain Be Britain," by Doug Bandow, National Review (Online), February 3, 2003

"Hazy WMD Definitions," by Alan Reynolds, Washington Times, February 2, 2003

"Arrogant Americans vs. Irresponsible Germans: Why Europe needs to show some backbone," by Doug Bandow, Reason (Online), October 14, 2002

"Building a New Nation -- and Dealing With the Past," by Doug Bandow, National Review (Online), September 24, 2002

"Starvation a By-Product of Looming Trade War," by Ronald A. Bailey, Cato.org, August 14, 2002

"NATO Expansion Hurts U.S. Security," by Doug Bandow, Japan Times, June 3, 2002

"The Road to War," by Charles V. Peña, OpenDemocracy.net, January 30, 2001

"State-Owned Enterprises Continue to Hinder Chinese Growth," by James A. Dorn, Japan Times, September 21, 2000

"Finance Matters: As WTO Accession Looms, China's Financial Prospects Remain Limited," by James A. Dorn, China Online, June 20, 2000

"The End of U.N. Peacekeeping," by Doug Bandow, Washington Times, June 9, 2000

"A Decade of Human Liberation," by Doug Bandow, Korea Herald, November 12, 1999

"NATO's Balkan Disaster: A Year Later," by Doug Bandow, Korea Herald, June 8, 1999

"What's NATO to Do?," by Doug Bandow, Copley News Service, April 21, 1999

"U.S. Benefits if Britain Is Wholeheartedly European," by Jonathan Clarke, Los Angeles Times, January 11, 1999

"Too Quickly Forgotten: Communism's Corpses," by Doug Bandow, Las Vegas Review-Journal, April 27, 1998

"Missile Defenses and East Asian Security," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Los Angeles Times, March 28, 1998

"Why Socialism Collapsed in Eastern Europe," by Tom G. Palmer, Cato.org, September 30, 1990

"Fear and Loathing in the Soviet Union," by Edward H. Crane, Update, March 17, 1982



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