Tag Archives: Thomas Barnett

  1. Don’t Count Out Free Markets Just Yet

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    As capitalism seems to come under persecution worldwide it is good to remember both the monumental accomplishments of free markets

  1. A long line of Afghan and Australian vehicles convoyed across the Oruzgan and Kandahar deserts during Operation Tor Ghar IV, May 15, 2010

    Internationalizing Afghanistan

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    There was some troubling news coming out of Kabul last week. Afghan President Hamid Karzai not only invited his Iranian

  1. US Must Be Consistent Toward China

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    After the Obama Administration announced that it would pursue a policy of “strategic reassurance” toward China last year, recent months

  1. View from the top of the Khyber Pass in Landi Kotal, Pakistan, into eastern Afghanistan, August 2, 2007 (Charlie Phillips)

    The Impossible Afghan State

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    When we asked here earlier this month whether the Western Coalition can win in Afghanistan, the findings were ambivalent at

  1. The United States Capitol in Washington DC, July 10, 2009 (Rich Williams)

    The End of American Ascendancy

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    After two decades of almost uncontested American hegemony, the sole superpower of our age is in decline. Or so we