** Weekly Round-Up
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** Quincy in the news
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** July 19, 2020
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QI’s Stephen Wertheim named “one of the world’s top 50 thinkers”
Prospect Magazine, 7/14/20
From his perch at Columbia, Wertheim has a distinctive beat—“the United States in the world.” It is an ideal angle from which to make sense of the fast-shifting tectonic plates of political geography, and he’s the most interesting expert rethinking US foreign policy. Since the end of the Cold War, he believes, the US has repeatedly blown the chance to promote peace and the common good, instead continuing down an anachronistic path of military supremacy and aggression. The outcome has been not only avoidable warfare overseas, but impoverished debate at home. With polls finding younger Americans support Wertheim’s anti-war stance, his ideas could soon become mainstream.
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Beyond humanity: How to control America's use of force
By Samuel Moyn, Non-Resident Fellow
Quincy Brief, 7/15/20
American debate about war has long been limited to how war is fought rather than whether and for how long it should be fought. This is a critical omission.
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Pay for play? Heritage's cozy ties with foreign arms maker raises eyebrows
By Eli Clifton, Investigative Journalist at Large
Responsible Statecraft/The American Conservative, 7/14/20
Conveniently, the think tank has taken a strong stand on the same land mines and autonomous weapons made by its multimillion dollar benefactor.
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House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith could diminish militarized policing
By Annelle Sheline, Research Fellow, Middle East
Responsible Statecraft, 7/16/20
Advocates arguing against structural racism and police violence must pressure Smith to address the 1033 program in the bill he writes, and to keep it in the final bill.
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Park Won-soon's suicide may destabilize Moon's foreign policy agenda
By Jessica Lee, Senior Research Fellow, East Asia
Foreign Policy, 7/16/20
The death of the South Korean human rights lawyer and potential presidential contender Park Won-soon by suicide last week has rocked the country, especially after it emerged that he was facing serious accusations of sexual abuse. Park was serving his third term as mayor of South Korea’s capital, Seoul, and, as a close ally of President Moon Jae-in, he was the face of South Korea’s technocratic competence in the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Park had become a prominent figure in coverage of national success in curbing the disease.
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** MORE. MORE. MORE.
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* Shocked by Russia supporting the Taliban? You shouldn't be ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Andrew Bacevich, President, The American Conservative, 7/15/20
* Wrestling with fog: On the elusiveness of liberal order ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Patrick Porter, Non-Resident Fellow, War on the Rocks, 7/15/20
* HillTV Live: Potential Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facility could be pushing us to war ([link removed][UNIQID]) on Rising with Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti/ Interviewed: Executive Vice President Trita Parsi, 7/14/2
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