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Elizabeth Shackelford

Elizabeth Shackelford

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Elizabeth Shackelford: The dominoes have been unleashed in the Middle East

Israel had good cause to try to neutralize Hezbollah, but that justification doesn’t change the...

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Elizabeth Shackelford: We need the United Nations in the peacekeeping business again

Research has consistently shown that third-party peacekeeping is effective, so why is funding for it...

20.09.2024 8

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Elizabeth Shackelford: Passing the torch to Kamala Harris could bring needed change to US-Israel policy 

Pro-Palestinian protesters in Chicago should realize that a Kamala Harris administration could break with the...

23.08.2024 10

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Elizabeth Shackelford: Will democracy be restored after the ouster of Bangladesh’s autocratic leader?

It was a dramatic and unhappy end to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's career that could...

09.08.2024 9

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Elizabeth Shackelford: Outside nations try to bring peace to Sudan but also help prolong war

Some outside players are keeping the war in Sudan moving. But therein lies the key...

26.07.2024 10

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Elizabeth Shackelford: France avoids a far-right government — for now

Now that the immediate threat of the National Rally has receded, will the parties be...

12.07.2024 8

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Elizabeth Shackelford: Little islands could spur big trouble in the South China Sea

The South China Sea has become one of the world’s most dangerous potential flashpoints. Territorial disputes in this area — often over...

28.06.2024 10

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Elizabeth Shackelford: The far right makes unnerving gains in EU elections 

I was in France during the recent European Union elections and witnessed the shock of many as Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally nearly...

14.06.2024 9

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Elizabeth Shackelford: South Africa’s election could bring a reckoning

South Africa’s election this week is the most consequential since the first post-apartheid election 30 years ago. It is the first time that the...

31.05.2024 10

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Elizabeth Shackelford: An alarming number of people are suffering displacement across the world

As of mid-2023, 110 million people were forcibly displaced globally. Mass migration can carry destabilization...

17.05.2024 20

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Elizabeth Shackelford: College protests and the right side of history

Student protest movements in America are often messy and divisive, but they tend to be on the right side of history. If President Joe Biden doesn’t...

03.05.2024 40

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Elizabeth Shackelford: As Russia’s actions demonstrate, our world order is fraying

The world has grown so desensitized to the offenses of Vladimir Putin’s Russia that the visible signs of torture on Islamic State terrorist...

05.04.2024 10

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Elizabeth Shackelford: Haiti can’t right itself without restoring security — and a working government

Since President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination in July 2021, Haiti has seen a total breakdown in security and political systems. Haiti’s security...

22.03.2024 10

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Elizabeth Shackelford: With Israel, the United States isn’t as weak as it’s acting

At least 30,000 people have been killed so far, famine is on Gaza’s doorstep and children are dying of hunger. And yet, the U.S. government...

08.03.2024 10

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Elizabeth Shackelford: Dysfunction in US makes it clear that Europe is at risk for outsourcing its security

The Munich Security Conference, the world’s preeminent annual gathering on international security, wrapped up last weekend. Global leaders and...

23.02.2024 20

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Letters: Bravo to Chicago for its plan to go electric and move away from natural gas in new buildings

As a sustainable design professional, I’m thrilled to see Chicago’s mayor putting our city on track to join dozens of other jurisdictions making...

26.01.2024 10

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Elizabeth Shackelford: Iran is at the tipping point. Will the US exercise its political will with Israel?

The latest war between Israel and Hamas is the biggest conflagration in the Middle East today, but sparks and fires are emerging across the region....

26.01.2024 6

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Elizabeth Shackelford: Chained to Israel, the US struggles to secure vital shipping lanes in the Red Sea

From our nation’s earliest days, making the world safe for American commerce has been the foundation of our foreign policy. The first Barbary War at...

12.01.2024 30

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Elizabeth Shackelford: For a better foreign policy in 2024, let’s be more like Taylor Swift

“My team is losing, battered and bruising./ I see the high-fives between the bad guys.” Taylor Swift’s “Miss Americana & the Heartbreak...

31.12.2023 20

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Elizabeth Shackelford: COP28’s climate success isn’t nearly enough

As the 28th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, known by its acronym COP28, wrapped up Wednesday, diplomats and activists rejoiced. In a...

15.12.2023 5

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