** Weekly Round-Up
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** Quincy in the news
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** January 10, 2021
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** FEATURED
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‘Tomorrow, the World’ review: From isolation to American empire
By Paul Kennedy/ Reviewed: "Tomorrow, the World" by Stephen Wertheim, Director of Grand Strategy
Wall Street Journal, 1/8/21
Eminent US historian Paul Kennedy reviews Stephen Wertheim’s Tomorrow, the World, praising it as explaining “better than any previous work, why and how … interwar reservations about America’s stepping to the center of the world stage were suppressed.” He notes the book's relevance for the incoming administration.
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It’s time to end the Korean War
By Jessica Lee, Senior Research Fellow
The American Prospect, 12/21/20
When President-elect Joe Biden walks into the White House on January 20, 2021, a wide range of pressing foreign-policy challenges will await him.
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What is behind the warnings issued by 10 former secretaries of defense?
By Ian Masters/ Interviewed: Mark Perry, Senior Analyst
KPFK, 1/5/20
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Biden wants to convene an international ‘Summit for Democracy.’ He shouldn’t.
By David Adler & Stephen Wertheim, Director of Grand Strategy
The Guardian, 12/22/20
Democracy is in disrepair. Over the past four years, President Donald Trump has mocked its rules and norms, accelerating the decay of democratic institutions in the United States.
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Gulf rift breakthrough
Interviewed: Annelle Sheline, Research Fellow
TRTWorld, 1/8/21
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** MORE. MORE. MORE.
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* The blockade of Qatar has ended, but the Gulf rift persists ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Research Fellow Annelle Sheline, Responsible Statecraft, 1/5/21
* Trump directed Pentagon to reverse decision and keep aircraft carrier in Middle East amid Iran tensions ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Jim Sciutto, Barbara Starr, & Nicole Gaouette/ Quoted: Executive Vice President Trita Parsi, CNN, 1/4/21
* Where does American foreign policy go from here? ([link removed][UNIQID]) by President Andrew Bacevich, New York Times, 1/3/21 (print edition)
* Iran attack may be next in Trump’s farewell bag of tricks ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Executive Vice President Trita Parsi, Responsible Statecraft, 12/31/20
* How military superiority made America less safe ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Alex Ward/ Interviewed: Director of Grand Strategy Stephen Wertheim, Vox, 12/29/20
* Iraq today is a nightmare that Americans largely sleep through ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Contributing Editor Kelley Beaucar Vlhaos, Responsible Statecraft, 12/29/20
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