** Weekly Round-Up
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** Quincy in the news
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** December 20, 2020
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NOTE: The Weekly Round-Up is taking the next two weeks off. We will see you on January 10. Happy New Year and thanks for your support!
** FEATURED
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Lloyd Austin isn’t who you think he is
By Mark Perry, Senior Analyst
Foreign Policy, 12/16/20
It was in 2010, when General Lloyd Austin was head of US Forces in Iraq, that he got to know then-Vice President Biden.
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Biden can end the War on Terror on Day One
By Elizabeth Shackelford, Non-Resident Fellow
The American Prospect, 12/15/20
Even as America’s military footprint has dramatically expanded across two decades, Congress’s war powers have atrophied for lack of use.
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Nuclear weapons are out of control. But Biden can make the world safer.
By Joe Cirincione, Non-Resident Fellow
The American Prospect, 12/17/20
Donald Trump left Joe Biden with a hot nuclear mess. Trump made every nuclear danger he inherited worse by the hawkish policies he and Republicans pursued.
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The new language of forever war-making
By Jacob Silverman/ Featured: Quincy Institute
The New Republic, 12/16/20
“History, unfortunately, is a forever war,” according to Clifford D. May and Bradley Bowman, who seem never to have encountered a war they don’t like.
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** MORE. MORE. MORE.
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* Progressives line up their own national security recruits for Biden ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Bryan Bender/ Cited: Executive Vice President Trita Parsi and Non-Resident Fellows Gordon Adams, Joe Cirincione, & Paul Pillar, Politico, 12/18/20
* PODCAST: Iran may be Biden’s first foreign policy challenge ([link removed][UNIQID]) with Executive Vice President Trita Parsi and Barbara Slavin, Deep Dish -- Chicago Council, 12/17/20
* Neocons want us to belly up for one more round of war ([link removed][UNIQID]) by President Andrew Bacevich, Responsible Statecraft, 12/17/2
* Will the NDAA cross the finish line? ([link removed][UNIQID]) By Bryan Bender/ Quoted: Senior Analyst Mark Perry, The Morning Defense -- Politico, 12/17/20
* Where do conservatives go on foreign policy now? ([link removed][UNIQID]) By Daniel Larison/ Cited; Quincy Institute, The American Conservative, 12/16/20
* Review: On Thucydides and China ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Priscilla Roberts/ Quoted: Deputy Director for Research and Policy Stephen Wertheim, H-Diplo, 12/16/20
* EVENT: The War in Afghanistan: Perspectives from US Veterans ([link removed][UNIQID]) with Research Associate Adam Weinstein, Wilson Center, 12/15/20
* Hunger in America: On the frontlines of the COVID-19 nightmare ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Non-Resident Fellow Rajan Menon, AlterNet, 12/15/20
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