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Somalia, Redux: A More Hands-Off Approach, Cato Policy Analysis No. 649

The two-decade-old conflict in Somalia has entered a new phase, which presents both a challenge and an opportunity for the United States. The elections of new U.S. and Somali presidents in late...
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  • CatoInstitute published this 10/08/2009
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Learning the Right Lessons from Iraq, Cato Policy Analysis No. 610

Foreign policy experts and policy analysts are misreading the lessons of Iraq. The emerging conventional wisdom holds that success could have been achieved in Iraq with more troops, more cooper...
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Escaping the Trap: Why the United States Must Leave Iraq, Cato Policy Analysis No. 588

Executive Summary The U.S. military occupation of Iraq has now lasted longer than U.S. involvement in World War II. Yet there is no end in sight to the mission. Staying in Iraq is a fatally...
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The Bottom Line on Iran: The Costs and Benefits of Preventive War versus Deterrence, Cato Polic

Executive Summary It appears increasingly likely that the Bush administration's diplomatic approach to Iran will fail to prevent Iran from going nuclear and that the United States will have t...
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Suicide Terrorism and Democracy: What We’ve Learned Since 9/11, Cato Policy Analysis No. 582

Executive Summary Over the past two decades, terrorist organizations have increasingly relied on suicide attacks to achieve political objectives. The specific goal sought in almost all suicid...
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Iran's Nuclear Program: America's Policy Options, Cato Policy Analysis No. 578

Executive Summary Although it is possible that negotiations between the leading powers in the international community and Iran may produce a settlement to the vexing issue of Iran's nuclear progra...
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Iraq's Odious Debts Cato Policy Analysis No. 526

Executive Summary Most debts created by Saddam Hussein in the name of the Iraqi people would qualify as "odious" according to the international Doctrine of Odious Debts. This legal doctrine hol...
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The Syria Accountability Act: Taking the Wrong Road to Damascus, Cato Policy Ana

Executive Summary On December 12, 2003, President Bush signed into law the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003, a law designed to pressure Syrian presi...
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Can Iraq Be Democratic?,, Cato Policy Analysis No. 505

Executive Summary Is Iraq capable of moving smoothly from dictatorship to democracy? This paper contends that the White House will be gravely disappointed with the result of its effort to estab...
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Iraq: The Wrong War, Cato Policy Analysis No. 502

Executive Summary President Bush asserts that U.S. military action against Iraq was justified because Saddam Hussein was in material breach of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441. Bu...
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Monetary Options for Postwar Iraq, Cato Foreign Policy Briefing No. 80

Executive Summary Following a swift military campaign to remove the Saddam Hussein government in Iraq, it has become clear that preparations for the postwar period have been inadequa...
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Mending the U.S.-European Rift over the Middle East, Cato Policy Analysis No. 48

Executive Summary The war in Iraq has created tensions between the United States and some of its leading allies in Europe and exposed a deep diplomatic rift between the traditional tran...
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Casualties of War: Transatlantic Relations and the Future of NATO in the Wake of

Executive Summary The Iraq War represents a turning point in transatlantic relations. Euro-American ties have been ruptured, and never again will be the same. But the growing estrangeme...
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After Victory: Toward a New Military Posture in the Persian Gulf, Cato Policy An

Executive Summary Donald Rumsfeld's announcement that U.S. troops will be removed from Saudi Arabia represents a significant and welcome change in U.S. policy toward the Persian Gulf. T...
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Why the United States Should Not Attack Iraq, Cato Policy Analysis No. 464

Executive Summary For months the Bush administration has been preparing the country for war with Iraq. The administration has argued that only a forcible regime change can neutralize th...
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Befriending Saudi Princes: A High Price for a Dubious Alliance, Cato Policy Anal

Executive Summary Although the House of Saud, Saudi Arabia's royal family, has long leaned toward the West, it is a corrupt totalitarian regime at sharp variance with America's most che...
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Are Our Troops Ready for Biological and Chemical Attacks?, Cato Policy Analysis

Executive Summary As war with Iraq becomes imminent, U.S. military readiness takes center stage. Concerns about readiness focus not only on our ability to successfully attack Iraq but o...
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The Great Game, Round 2: Washington's Misguided Support for the Baku-Ceyhan Oil

Executive Summary One of the top foreign policy priorities of the Clinton administration during the last few years has been strong support for building a pipeline...
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Imperial Overreach: Washington's Dubious Strategy to Overthrow Saddam Hussein, C

Executive Summary The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 says, "It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to p...
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