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For Over 50 Years Think-Tank Wages Peace from Muscatine

By Adam Burke 4/25/08

What if you could do one-stop shopping for all your global peace and security policy analysis needs?

Nuclear proliferation and disarmament; United Nations strategy and planning; Middle East and Asian security; emergent powers; U.S. security; all of it. Ready for download and available from one policy research think-tank that is nonpartisan and stresses a multilateral approach [...]

Leach Pessimistic on Iran

By John Deeth 11/27/07

Former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach says he is “extremely pessimistic” about U.S. relations with Iran. 

“We’ve administered a policy analogous to the same policy we’ve had towards Cuba, both attitudinally and in effect, of not talking and of basically refusing to deal on a respectful basis,” the head of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government [...]

Zogby Quietly Praises Obama, Richardson

By John Deeth 9/24/07

James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, praised the foreign policy skills of candidates Barack Obama and Bill Richardson while talking with Iowa Independent and several audience members following an Iowa City talk today.

“Obama has an incredible understanding of the issues,” Zogby said.  “This is just an incredibly smart guy.”

Zogby was less positive when [...]

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