F701:
Foreign Policy Roundtable
Fall 2009
Reading List
● Sept. 21: What Is the National Interest?
● Sept. 28:
Where’s Europe Going?
A.
Wes
Mitchell,
“Perhapsburg: What the European Union Is and Isn’t,” The
American Interest, (Nov.–Dec., 2008);
Attached
Geoffrey
Wheatcroft, “Continental Drifts,” The National Interest, (Mar.–Apr.,
2009);
http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=20974
William
Drozdiak, “In Europe, Breaking Up Is So Easy to Do,” The Washington
Post, March 1, 2009.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022703659.html
● Oct. 5: NATO:
Looking for a Job?
● Oct. 12:
Taming a Russian Bear:
Michael
Mandelbaum,
“Modest
Expectations: Facing Up to Our Russia Options,” The American
Interest (May–June, 2009);
Attached
Arkady
Ostrovski, “Reversal of Fortune,” Foreign Policy (Mar.–Apr.,
2009).
Attached
Jim Hoagland, "Alliances Yet to Come," Washington Post, (Oct 4, 2009);
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
(Added Oct 6, 2009)
● Oct. 19: China
Rising or Falling? The Great Debate.
Minxin
Pei,
“Looming
Stagnation,” The National Interest, (Mar.–Apr., 2009);
Jonathan
Anderson, “Beijing’s Exceptionalism,” ibid.
http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=20952
(both
articles
are included in this link)
Fred
Hiatt, "The Meeting That Wasn't," Washington Post, (Oct 12, 2009);
http://www.washingtonpost.com
(Added
Oct 13, 2009)
● Oct. 26:
Managing Iran.
Robert
Baer,
“Iranian
Resurrection,” The National Interest, (Nov.–Dec., 2008).
http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=20092
(Added
Oct 20, 2009)
Robert Kagen, “Forget the Nukes”,
Washington
Post, Sep 30, 2009
Andrew Albertson and Ali G. Scotten, "A Human Rights
Lever for Iran,"
Washington
Post, Sep
30, 2009
William Broad and David Sanger, "Report Says Iran
Has Data to Make a Nuclear Bomb,"
New
York
Times, Oct 4, 2009
Jackson Diehl, "The Coming Failure on Iran,"
Washington
Post, Oct
4, 2009
● Nov. 2: U.S.
Defense Strategy.
Robert
M.
Gates, “A
Balanced Strategy,” Foreign Affairs, (Jan–Feb, 2009);
Attached
T. X. Hammes,
“The Art of Petraeus,” The National Interest, (Nov–Dec, 2008);
Attached
David Ignatius,
“Petraeus’s Tougher Fight,” The Washington Post, May 13, 2009;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/12/AR2009051203039.html
Celeste Ward,
“Countering the Military’s Latest Mantra,” The Washington Post, May 17,
2009.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/15/AR2009051502069.html
● Nov. 9:
Civilian Elements of National Security.
J.
Anthony
Holmes,
“Where Are the Civilians? How to Rebuild the U.S. Foreign Service,”
Foreign Affairs, (Jan.–Feb., 2009);
Attached
Matthew
Bogdanos, “Duties That Are Best Shared,” The Washington Post, March 1,
2009;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022702953.html?referrer=emailarticle
Carol Grigsby, “Binding the Nation: National Service in America,”
Parameters, (Winter, 2008–09).
Attached.
Michael O'Hanlon, "U.S.
Boots on Congo Ground," The Washington Post, Aug 14, 2009;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/13/AR2009081302900.html?referrer=emailarticle