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Michael Mandelbaum
Michael Mandelbaum is Professor of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and the co-author, with Thomas L. Friedman, of the forthcoming book That Used To Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back.
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The Spirit of September 12
Michael Mandelbaum Series: The World in Words 2011-09-07While necessary in some form, the "war on terror" as it played out over the past ten years has served to divert America’s attention and resources from the problems that it must solve in order to ensure its future prosperity and power. Now America must recapture and harness the spirit of unity following 9/11 to meet its current challenges.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 2 Read: 5768
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A Bad Deal for America’s Future
Michael Mandelbaum Series: The New Global Economy 2011-08-04
The painfully negotiated US budget legislation that Barack Obama signed on August 2 has three major flaws. Two of them offset each other, but the third threatens what America needs most in the coming years: economic growth.... read Comments: 2 Recommended: 0 Read: 15166
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Can Egypt Become a True Democracy?
Michael Mandelbaum Series: The World in Words 2011-02-14Egypt faces several obstacles to building a democratic political system, but it also enjoys some important advantages. Indeed, Egypt appears to have democracy's most important asset: democrats.... read Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 18262
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Rules for a Frugal Superpower
Michael Mandelbaum Series: The World in Words 2010-10-11
American foreign policy faces substantial belt-tightening, as the mounting expense of servicing the national debt, combined with soaring pension and health-care costs, will leave less money for US initiatives abroad. How, then, should the US adapt in order to minimize the damage to global security caused by its straitened circumstances? ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 12193
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NATO: Bigger Isn't Better
Michael Mandelbaum Series: The World in Words 1997-10-14WASHINGTON, D.C. Now that NATO has invited Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic to join, President Clinton must seek ratification of the new treaty by the US Senate. The Senate should reject NATO expansion. The scholar-diplomat George Kennan is correct in calling expansion the "most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-Cold War era." ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 2572
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Expanding NATO is Unnecessary
Michael Mandelbaum Series: The World in Words 1996-08-01WASHINGTON D.C.: Some time in 1997 the North Atlantic Alliance is expected to offer NATO membership to some or all of the four "Visegrad" countries: Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. This would be a mistake, as I argue in my new book on European security, The Dawn of Peace in Europe. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 2247
