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		<title>Competing Visions for U.S. Grand Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What are the competing visions for a U.S. grand strategy, their objectives, premises and preferred instruments? Robert J. Art lays out eight possible grand strategies for consideration: Dominion, Global Collective Security;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ecuador and China: BFFs and Champions of the 21st Century Socialist Agenda</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ecuador is a beautiful country with a rich and diverse culture, geography and history. My wife is from Ecuador, and I can’t say enough about the friendliness and generosity of her family and many others that I’ve met from Ecuador.  My hope is to someday visit the country, God willing, and take in all the sights, sounds, smells and experiences that up until now, I have only experienced through the anecdotal, photographic and video evidence. 

However, I feel that my timetable and window for visiting the country is rapidly closing. If things continue in their current economic and political direction under President Correa, there may not be any socio-political stability left, not to mention the inevitable deterioration of the economy that always accompanies centrally-managed socialist states. See Cuba and Russia for good examples.  Moreover, I may have to learn Chinese in addition to Spanish to get around the country. So what exactly is going on in Ecuador? Didn’t Rafael Correa make everything better?

President Correa’s Vision

Leftist President Rafael Correa of Ecuador easily won a second term as president of Ecuador on February 16th with 56% of the vote compared to the 23% of his closest competitor, Guillermo Lasso, a banker from Guayaquil.[1]  Now President Correa will be able to continue his radical socialist agenda for another four years in Ecuador, especially if his party strengthens their hold on the Assembly. Not everyone in Ecuador is happy about that.

“There is a lot of apprehension that if he wins the Assembly, there will be a greater concentration of power,” said José Hernández, an editor of Hoy, a Quito daily newspaper. “He will try to flatten everyone who is in his way. He will try to dominate more because that’s his personality, and that’s what he wants to do.”[2] So just who is Rafael Correa?]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is International Relations a Science?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(C) Kapok Tree Diplomacy. 2010. All rights reserved. Jeff Dwiggins, author Is international relations (IR) a science? Well, I guess it depends on what science we’re talking about – physical,]]></description>
		
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		<title>Beyond Anarchy: How Wendt’s Social Constructivism and Cox’s Historical Materialism Redefine the International System and State Identities While Explaining Structural Transformation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 21:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jeff Dwiggins &#8211; Kapok Tree Diplomacy &#8211; Feb. 2010 &#8211; All rights reserved. FREE CONTENT The dominant and mainstream theories of world politics explain both changes to the international system]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Limitations of Classical Realism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[To what extent has neo-realism addressed the limitations of classical realism, if there be any, and overcome them or not? The following analytical essay shall engage this question by exploring each theory’s core assumptions and then review the effect of these assumptions on key areas of understanding international relations to include philosophical perspective, definitions of power and security, the role of anarchy and rationality, the distribution of capabilities and balance of power, and a definition of the international system. The essay will conclude by bringing both theories’ assumptions to bear upon the current crisis between the United States and Iran. Given the assumptions, I will draw conclusions as to which theory most accurately ascertains the situation and which is more likely to predict the outcome. 

* The posts, views and opinions expressed on this site are completely my own and do not represent the views or opinions of the Department of Defense, the Department of the Navy or the Armed Forces. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Extent That Theories of Cooperation Harmonize With Reality in Contemporary International Relations</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[January 30, 2010 &#8211; Jeffrey R. Dwiggins, Copyright, Kapok Tree Diplomacy &#8211; FREE CONTENT The Extent That Theories of Cooperation Harmonize With Reality in Contemporary International Relations International relations theorists]]></description>
		
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					<description><![CDATA[In my initial studies of international relations and world politics through the mainstream theoretic lenses, the idea that “liberal” institutions operating within the anarchic structure of the international system can]]></description>
		
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