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				<title>Ted Galen Carpenter (Cato Institute)</title>
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				<title>Ma Ying-jeou's Victory Provides Respite &#8212; Not Resolution in Cross-Strait Tensions (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14066</link>
				<description><![CDATA[U.S. officials and much of the East Asian business and political communities breathed a sigh of relief on January 14 when Ma Ying-jeou won re-election as Taiwan's president. Even a few months ago, that outcome seemed uncertain. A disgruntled public still blamed Ma for the country's economic recessio...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Obama's State of the Union: Too Little Foreign Policy (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14048</link>
				<description><![CDATA[President Obama&#8217;s treatment of international issues in his State of the Union was profoundly unsatisfying. Under the US Constitution, the president&#8217;s principal responsibility is to direct the foreign policy of the United States and to protect the country from external enemies. A State of...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Broken Promise of Change: The Obama Administration's Defense Strategy and Budget (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14022</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama was elected president of the United States in 2008 with the slogan of &#8220;hope and change.&#8221; In the area of defense policy, though, little substantive change has taken place during his three years in office. That point was confirmed again in early January when the administration...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>For US Election Candidates, China Is an Easy Target (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14011</link>
				<description><![CDATA[There has been a noticeable escalation in US confrontational rhetoric and actions in recent weeks regarding China. Legislation continues to percolate in Congress that would impose tariffs and other sanctions on Chinese imports unless Beijing significantly revalues its currency.

Mitt Romney, one o...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Drug Mayhem Moves South (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14010</link>
				<description><![CDATA[THE DRUG violence in Mexico no longer is a concern just to that country. More than forty-three thousand people have died in the fighting there since President Felipe Calder&#243;n initiated his military offensive against the powerful drug cartels in December 2006. Uneasy officials in the United St...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>How the Mideast Was Lost (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13985</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The upheavals that engulfed the Middle East and North Africa in 2011 seemed to blindside the Obama administration and U.S. foreign-policy community. There was no indication at all that American officials anticipated the ouster of Tunisia&#8217;s long-tenured pro-U.S. strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Al...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13985</guid>
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				<title>Frustrated Pair Need to Act Together (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13907</link>
				<description><![CDATA[China and US could cooperate more on dealing with Pyongyang and Teheran

Amajor, troubling foreign policy issue for both China and the United States is the nuclear proliferation problem posed by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Iran. Washington and Beijing share the basic objec...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Violence Tests U.S. Prohibition (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13885</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Nearly five years ago, Mexico's president, Felipe Calder&#243;n, declared war on the country's powerful and vicious drug cartels. His strategy of using the military against them initially enjoyed widespread domestic popularity, as well as Washington's strong support, but it has failed to yield res...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Mexico Sours on Drug War (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13866</link>
				<description><![CDATA[When Mexico's new president Felipe Calder&#243;n launched a military-led offensive against the country's powerful drug cartels in December 2006, his strategy enjoyed widespread domestic support. But his confrontational approach has not gone as planned. At least forty-four thousand &#8212; and acco...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Undermining Mexico's Dangerous Drug Cartels (Policy Analysis)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13834</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Since President Felipe Calder&#243;n launched a military-led offensive against Mexico's powerful drug cartels in December 2006, some 42,000 people have perished. The situation is so bad that the Mexican government's authority in several portions of the country, especially along the border with the...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>The Balkan Human Tragedy Continues (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13844</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press reports that officials from Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, and Montenegro are planning a "donors' conference" next year to raise money for civilians who were displaced by the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Despite some unresolved quarrels on other matters, the four governments are united i...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Conservative Hawks Are Incoherent Regarding Iraq Troop Withdrawal (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13845</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Prominent conservatives continue to sputter about President Obama's announcement that all U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Iraq by year's end. GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry charges that the president was "irresponsible" for making that announcement, thereby "letting the enemy know" the dat...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>News Flash! Neocons Discover That Iran Has Influence in Iraq! (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13846</link>
				<description><![CDATA[As soon as President Obama announced that negotiations with the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to keep a sizable number of U.S. troops in Iraq beyond the end of 2011 had failed, neoconservative pundits went wild. They accused the president of dangerously undermining Washington's strate...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13846</guid>
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				<title>Interventionist Addiction: U.S. Troops in Central Africa (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13847</link>
				<description><![CDATA[President Obama announced on October 14 that the United States would send approximately 100 "military advisers" to assist the Ugandan government, and probably the governments of South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as well, to combat the Lord's Resistance Army. The LRA, led by Joseph...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>An Especially Delicate Phase in U.S.-China Relations (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13848</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Issues that could disrupt U.S.-China relations keep festering. Last month, the Obama administration modestly placated Beijing by refraining from selling Taiwan the most advanced versions of the F-16 fighter. Now two other measures threaten to reignite tensions. Later this week, the Senate is schedul...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13848</guid>
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				<title>EU Membership's Fading Appeal (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13849</link>
				<description><![CDATA[A crucial feature of European politics, especially since the end of the Cold War, is based on the assumption that the nations of Central and Eastern Europe hunger to be part of the continent's economic and political integration process. That process is symbolized by the European Union and its predec...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13849</guid>
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				<title>Germany Makes Another Balkan Mess (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13850</link>
				<description><![CDATA[German chancellor Angela Merkel has received undeserved praise for adopting an uncompromising position regarding Kosovo in meetings with Serbian president Boris Tadic. The latest example of a laudatory reaction is the piece [3] by Morton Abramowitz and James Hooper.

Abramowitz and Hooper are thri...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13850</guid>
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				<title>A Hotline with Iran? Dealing with Governments We Loathe (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13851</link>
				<description><![CDATA[A September 19 story in the Wall Street Journal indicated that U.S. officials might be interested in establishing a military hotline with Iranian forces to reduce the danger of clashes in the Persian Gulf. Both the White House and Pentagon quickly stated that there were no "formal proposals" along t...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13851</guid>
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				<title>When Allies Quarrel, America Gets a Headache (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13852</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Relations between Turkey and Israel grow more tense and ugly by the day. There is even growing speculation that the two countries might come to blows. Ankara's pledge to provide naval escorts for future humanitarian relief flotillas headed for Gaza certainly has the potential to trigger such a confl...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13852</guid>
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				<title>U.S. China Hawks Perpetuate East Asian Free Riding (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13853</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Princeton University scholar Aaron Friedberg has fired the latest salvo in the campaign to highlight China's military buildup and the threat it's likely to pose to U.S. hegemony in the far western Pacific and East Asia. Much of what he says is warranted by the facts. China's military modernization i...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13853</guid>
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				<title>Mexico's Unwinnable War (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13854</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Some experts on the drug wars in Latin America have argued for years that Colombia is a great success story and U.S. leaders should try to apply the same model to neutralize the drug-related violence that continues to convulse Mexico. Robert Bonner, who directed the Drug Enforcement Administration d...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13854</guid>
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				<title>Accepting Reality: Living with a Nuclear North Korea (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13855</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Hopes are rising once more that the moribund six-party talks will resume and that negotiations will eventually produce an agreement whereby North Korea abandons its nuclear program. The latest cause for optimism came when North Korean leader Kim Jong-il called for a moratorium on the building or tes...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13855</guid>
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				<title>U.S. Masochism: Trying to Stay in Iraq and Afghanistan (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13856</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr has issued new warnings about the possible consequences if Washington reneges on its commitment to withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq by the end of the year. He emphasized that such troops would then be entirely legitimate targets for attacks. One hopes that U.S. l...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13856</guid>
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				<title>NATO's New Problem: Post-Qaddafi Libya? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13857</link>
				<description><![CDATA[After weeks of very little movement either militarily or diplomatically in Libya, there are apparent developments on both fronts in recent days. Rebel forces, aided by NATO's air support, finally appear to be advancing into western Libya and cutting off supply lines to Tripoli, the long-time strongh...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13857</guid>
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				<title>Let Europeans Help the New Libya (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13806</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Moammar Gadhafi's death at the hands of Libyan rebels who toppled his 42-year dictatorship signals the start of a new era in Libya. Those developments underscore that U.S. and NATO officials urgently need to decide what strategy they intend to pursue.

That is more crucial for the leaders of the E...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13806</guid>
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				<title>Cooperation and Rivalry: The United States and China Deal with Pakistan (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13792</link>
				<description><![CDATA[One prominent feature of the China-US relationship is the number of security issues that involve roughly equal elements of cooperation and rivalry. That is certainly the case with respect to the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs. Both Washington and Beijing would prefer to keep Tehran and Py...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13792</guid>
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				<title>US Should Make Up Its Mind about Taiwan (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13736</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Taiwan's government is deeply disappointed by the Obama administration's stance on a request to purchase 66 advanced-model F-16 fighters. Instead of letting Taiwan buy the newer versions, the US merely agreed to retrofit the 146 older models already in Taipei's fleet. That decision was a blow to Pre...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13736</guid>
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				<title>Washington Placates a Rising China (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13725</link>
				<description><![CDATA[One does not have to accept dubious predictions that China may overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by the end of this decade to recognize that the world is dealing with a rapidly rising great power. Moreover, it is a great power that is exhibiting serious diplomatic clout, not ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13725</guid>
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				<title>The Dangers of Rejecting Balkan Partitions (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13726</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Morton Abramowitz and James Hooper are horrified that I urge the West to consider the partition of Bosnia and Kosovo as a partial solution to the ongoing problems in the Balkans. But those gentlemen, and most others in the foreign-policy community who share their views, are marvelously selective abo...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13726</guid>
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				<title>China's Perilous Libyan Adventure (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13685</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The Libyan revolution (and the so-called Arab Spring generally) has created both opportunities and problems for China's foreign policy. Before the onset of the 2011 turmoil in much of the Middle East and North Africa, Beijing's policy toward countries in that part of the world was one of unapologeti...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13685</guid>
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				<title>Off-Load Foreign Policy Problems, Don't "Lead from Behind" (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13660</link>
				<description><![CDATA[As Muammar Gadhafi's regime in Libya experiences its final throes of agony, cheering has erupted among pundits and members of the foreign policy community in the United States. Two assertions are most prominent: that the Obama administration brilliantly executed a strategy of "leading from behind" &#x26;...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13660</guid>
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				<title>Mexico's Drug Violence Is Back in the News (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13572</link>
				<description><![CDATA[For a few weeks this spring, it appeared that Mexico's bloody drug war might be subsiding. Levels of violence in some of the worst locales, especially Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana, had declined from the peak in 2009 and 2010, and stories about beheadings and mass graves were no longer daily fare in wir...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13572</guid>
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				<title>Obama Fumbles His Opportunity with the Arab World (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13573</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The results of a new Zogby poll confirm that attitudes toward the United States among Arab populations are as negative as ever. Reaction in this country has generally divided into two camps. One faction shrugs its collective shoulders and embraces the convenient excuse that Arabs always hate the Uni...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13573</guid>
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				<title>Taiwan and Other Security Clients Are Not Valuable Allies (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13574</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The ongoing controversy surrounding Taiwan's request to purchase sophisticated weapons systems from the United States, including 66 advanced F-16 jet fighters, continues to roil. In late July, President Obama capitulated to the demand of Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and other pro-Taiwan members of Con...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13574</guid>
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				<title>The West's Rube Goldberg Schemes in the Balkans Come Apart (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13575</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Tensions and violence are again on the rise in the Balkans. The latest incident, which Morton Abramowitz and James Hooper document in depressing detail, was a dust-up between government forces and angry Serbs in northern Kosovo. That episode follows on the heels of renewed efforts by Bosnian Serbs t...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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