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							<title><![CDATA[America's Internationalist Ideal Is Dying in Europe]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The surge of populist right-wing parties in Europe has now damaged the standing of the continent&rsquo;s most important leader, German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Worse, the rise of movements fueled by nationalistic and racist programs signals that a core ethos of the European-American...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Tangled Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jim-hoagland-our-tangled-foreign-policy-problems/2013/01/18/0dc32400-618e-11e2-9940-6fc488f3fecd_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The desert sands of Mali and Algeria provide an unlikely arena for an existential challenge to the global alliance system the United States has managed since World War II. But the hesitant and timid U.S. and European Union responses to the crisis in northwestern Africa drip like acid on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Package Deal for Iran and Syria]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jim-hoagland-a-package-deal-on-iran-and-syria/2012/12/28/baa00720-5067-11e2-950a-7863a013264b_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Syria&#194;&#146;s Alawite regime collapses from within and without. High-level defections march in step with rebel gains through the Sunni heartland. The Obama administration&#194;&#146;s signature regional strategy &#194;&#151; described in a Freudian slip by a French career diplomat here as &#194;&#147;waiting from behind&#194;&#148;...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mideast Order Is Rapidly Eroding]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rethinking-the-middle-east/2012/08/17/183c7c88-e894-11e1-936a-b801f1abab19_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Syria&rsquo;s civil war is the decisive event in the remaking of the Middle East that began with the self-immolation of a Tunisian fruit vendor 21 months ago. The battle for Damascus has become the fulcrum of a now fully visible Sunni-Shiite struggle over the creation and control of an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Premature Planning for a 2nd Term]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-premature-planning-for-a-second-term/2012/03/29/gIQAd7ssjS_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Insecurities Linger Beneath China's Exterior]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/12/AR2010111205036.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The extraordinary power and wealth that China has accumulated in just 30  years are evident in its pulsating streets, giant shopping malls and  ostentatious military maneuvers. But less-visible insecurities linger  from its recent chaotic past and drive this country's politics. China's ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Disconnect in Mideast]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/06/AR2010080604730.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama's Middle East initiatives are moored in clear and just principles, soul-lifting oratory and a vastly charitable reading of human nature. Unfortunately, they are not anchored in an equally steady understanding of -- or feeling for -- the fractious, grasping, always...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[India's Unease With Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/11/AR2010021103270.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI

Asia forms the crossroads of success or failure for Barack Obama's grandest foreign policy designs. This impression has crystallized over a year in which the president has shown himself indifferent to Europe, sentimental and somewhat conflicted about Africa, perplexed by the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Living in the Now]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/01/03/living_in_the_now_99741.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Listen up, Israel: Not now. Obama, don't let the winds of public opinion twist you around your own axle. Putin, stop shielding the murderers, including those who rid you of meddlesome lawyers. Sarkozy, your energy and irreverence are dazzling, but what about a little more...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hell is the Redskins]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/12/27/hell_is_the_redskins_99688.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The Greek tragedies endure because they teach us that life is worth living in spite of the anguish and pain that mark so much of our existence. This has helped me understand and empathize with even the Washington Redskins through this dismal season.
Until now.
I'll come...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Wall Street Got Ugly]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/12/20/an_image_you_can_bank_on_99619.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The ugliest Americans are now the nation's bankers.
Abroad, they have abruptly become living symbols of uncontrollable greed. At home, President Obama publicly mocks them as "fat cats" to get on the right side of public anger -- even though it was the Treasury Department...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Too Big to Fail?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/12/13/too_big_to_fail_99528.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- In the streets of Tehran, young Iranians shout "Death to the Dictator" instead of "Death to America." Across the border, Iraqis worry that new violence after months of relative calm will undermine the political process they adopted under U.S. pressure. But they also voice...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Prisoner of Context]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/12/06/prisoner_of_context_99429.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- President Obama's expansion of the war in Afghanistan meets the tests of strategic necessity abroad and political equilibrium at home. He can reasonably hope that his surge will buy time for things to improve, particularly in Pakistan, the war's vital theater.
But even the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What He's Really Thinking]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/29/what_hes_really_thinking_99329.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dec. 1, 2009:
My fellow Americans,
This is not the speech you expected to hear. But my wordsmiths are tied in knots writing an acceptance speech for the only Nobel Peace Prize ever awarded for making speeches. So I am going to tell you how I really feel about Afghanistan. Which is:...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Awash in Unintended Consequences]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/22/awash_in_unintended_consequences_99248.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Few things are as dangerous in the Middle East as well-intentioned outsiders. They invariably bring unintended consequences upon those they would guide to a better life. Ask Job. Or consider the case of Mahmoud Abbas, whose hurt and fury over foreign meddling has triggered...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Question We've Yet to Ask]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/15/the_question_weve_yet_to_ask_99163.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- America's vast spaces inspire such fear and uncertainty for the country's inhabitants that at times they snap, reach for an ever-present firearm and blaze away at their fellow citizens. This narrative comes from a European friend to explain the Fort Hood massacre, as well...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Downside of an Extended Hand]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/08/downside_of_an_extended_hand_99062.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama's extended hand was whacked across the knuckles by the leaders of Iran, Syria and assorted other thuggeries last week. But the Obama administration did manage a good demonstration in Burma of how its brand of engagement can and should work.
Kurt Campbell, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chirac on the Rocks]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/01/chirac_on_the_rocks_98969.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Old age is a shipwreck. 
-- Charles de Gaulle
WASHINGTON -- Revolutions notoriously eat their children. But France's political system reserves its sharpest cruelties for elderly politicians as they fall from favor, as de Gaulle learned in 1968. Now it is the turn of former President...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time for a Stronger NAFTA]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/10/25/time_for_a_stronger_nafta_98861.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[OTTAWA -- Candidate Barack Obama made the North American Free Trade Agreement an early target. He promised union leaders to force a renegotiation of NAFTA on his terms. Back then, I thought Obama went too far. Now I think he did not go nearly far enough.
Canada, the U.S. and Mexico must...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Obama Squeeze on Afghanistan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/10/18/the_obama_squeeze_on_afghanistan_98759.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Is President Obama dithering on Afghanistan, as critics claim? Or do loyalists praising his deliberate pace have it right? Both camps rush past the obvious: The president is almost certainly applying a calculated, coldblooded squeeze on his partners in the Afghan endeavor...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Honoring Obama For Events Yet to Come]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/10/11/thanks_for_favors_to_come.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Gobsmacked by President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize? You have come to the right place. Chalk it up to the national character of my ancestral homeland.
Norwegians have spent centuries living down the Vikings' lust for conquest and adventure. But they have never quite...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Grand Opportunity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/10/04/obamas_grand_opportunity_98563.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Three American presidents have set the stage for a grand bargain that could align the interests of the world's leading powers in Europe and the Middle East. It is now up to Barack Obama to play out that opportunity by keeping his eye on the forest as well as the trees.
The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Nuclear Treadmill]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/09/27/obamas_nuclear_treadmill_98468.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK -- President Obama's dream of a world without nuclear weapons seems more like a nightmare to Russia and other nations that also possess doomsday arms. Obama is pushing on a door that is closed, barred from inside and locked with a key that has been thrown away as far as the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Yin ang Yang in the Kremlin]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/09/20/yin_ang_yang_in_the_kremlin_98383.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW -- The world's economic crisis does not seem to have been unkind to you, Vladimir Putin notes as we sit down to a lunch that begins with calf's tail in aspic. "You all look well fed, well dressed."
It is a spy's gambit, one of several that the Russian prime minister advances...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Afghan Hopes Meet Reality]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/09/10/damaged_election_damaged_strategy_98229.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The aftermath of Afghanistan's elections has been uglier and more consequential than the campaign that preceded the voting. It has become clear that President Hamid Karzai's bid for re-election was tainted by widespread fraud, a development that represents the Obama...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Japan's Change, and Challenges]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/09/06/japans_change_and_challenges_98178.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Japan's voters have thrust power on an incoherent coalition of hungry politicians distinguished only by their willingness to promise anything to anybody anytime. Good for them. In many ways we should applaud the Japanese who voted for what is being described as "change they...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Libyan Lesson In Tehran]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/08/30/when_trust_doesnt_verify_98091.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Moammar Gaddafi leaned across the couch and surprised me with the question he posed, squinting as he searched my face for reaction: "Why do you drink poison?"
I could guess where the Libyan dictator was headed but asked him to explain. During a news conference, we had just...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Obama Weak?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/21/AR2009082102309.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Shortly after the Group of 20 summit concluded in London in April, Nicolas Sarkozy blurted out to a small group of advisers a question that weighed on him as he watched President Obama glad-hand his way through the gathering: "Est-il faible?" (Is he weak?)The French president did not...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Perception Becomes a Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/08/23/perception_becomes_a_problem_98003.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Shortly after the G-20 summit concluded in London in April, Nicolas Sarkozy blurted out to a small group of advisers a question that weighed on him as he watched President Obama glad-hand his way through the gathering: "Est-il faible?" (Is he weak?)
The French president did...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ahead, For Once, in the Balkans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/08/16/ahead_for_once_in_the_balkans_97907.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Hoagland</author>
							<description><![CDATA[KORCULA, Croatia -- The enterprising folk of this Adriatic island town now use the past to propel themselves into the future. As they do, they offer a glimpse of a certain idea of promise for all the Balkans.
Disregarding many histories that put Marco Polo's birthplace elsewhere, or...]]></description>
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