Category Archives: American Foreign Policy

Iran Nuclear Crisis: The Case For Patience

By Richard Armstrong As tensions increase between the United States and Iran there is another round in the ongoing debate of what the US should do about the Iranian nuclear program. This debate has been playing out on the Foreign … Continue reading

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The Uprising in Syria

After the fall of regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, attention has now turned to whether or not the Assad regime can retain control in Syria. The Syrian uprising started at relatively the same time as the other Arab spring … Continue reading

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Reconsidering U.S. Policy Towards Bahrain

While most of the world’s attention has been focused on the effects of the Arab Spring on larger states like Libya and Egypt, very little attention has been paid to its effects on the smaller countries in the region. Before … Continue reading

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America’s True Responsibility

By Jordan McGillis The killing of Muammar el-Qaddafi has sent waves of euphoria across Libya and much of the Arab world, bringing to a close a long and bloody chapter in the country’s history. For forty-two years the autocrat ruled … Continue reading

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