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Monday’s Mtg: Wahhabism and Its Influence On Islam
Carl suggested we talk about Wahhabism. Wahhabism is a fundamentalist and highly puritanical strain of Islam that became anchored in Saudi Arabia two centuries ago. Throughout the 20th century, the...
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Monday’s Mtg: Who Is To Blame for Iraq and Syria?
Our group has been debating the Middle East’s problems since we formed more than a decade ago (!). Most recently, we discussed the failures of the Arab Spring (2/14) and the rise of ISIS (9/14). (I...
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Monday’s Mtg: Nuclear Agreement With Iran.
As the whole world knows, on Tuesday night 7/14/15 the United States and six of the world’s major powers announced a major arms control agreement with Iran. Historic, is more like it, for good or ill....
View ArticleMonday’s Mtg: Is Worldwide Democracy Inevitable?
It’s kind of a holiday weekend. But, I really like this topic idea of Aaron’s asking whether universal democracy should still be considered a kind of “Manifest Destiny” for the 21st century. Yes, it...
View ArticleMonday’s Mtg (2/12/18): U.S. foreign policy – How do we know we are the good...
This topic is just a way to ask two big questions, I think. They are (1) What motivates America’s interaction with the rest of the world, and (2) how much “good” do we really accomplish and for whom...
View ArticleMonday’s Mtg: Was the liberal international order just a passing phase?
The overwhelming consensus is that the Donald Trump presidency has done substantial damage to the United States’ standing in the world. We have taken a possibly enormous hit to our – Reputation as a...
View ArticleMonday’s Mtg: Recent anti-govt mass protests overseas – what do they mean?
This was Nile’s idea. As our own national political crisis drags on and on, the rest of the world keeps turning. One recent major development has been mass anti-govt protests in a dozen countries. They...
View ArticleMonday’s Mtg: Is the American Century over? How will global problems get solved?
In a sense this week’s main question hardly needs a question mark at the end. The term, “the American Century” was coined almost 80 years ago. If it still refers to U.S. economic and political...
View ArticleMonday’s Mtg (2/21/22): USA and China – Containment, Coexistence, or war?
Vladimir Putin has been grabbing all of the international headlines lately by crawling way out on a lonely but heavily armed limb to threaten Ukraine. President Biden says Invasion is imminent,...
View ArticleMonday’s Mt (10/24/22): What makes a cold war turn hot?
By most definitions a cold war is an extended period of hostile relations between two countries or blocks of countries that seldom flares up into direct large-scale armed conflict. Incidents of...
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