Policy Corner

“Steady as She Goes:” Diplomacy with Iran

The Islamic Republic… References and FootnotesC. Hemmer, “Responding to a Nuclear Iran,” in Taking Sides: Clashing Views in World Politics, (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2010), 256. ↩M. Kibaroglu, “Good for the Shah, Banned for the Mullahs: The West and Iran's Quest for Nuclear Power,” Middle East Institute 60 no. 2 (2006): 209, retrieved April12, 2010, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4330247. ↩Ibid, 210. ↩Al Jazeera English, “Timeline: Iran's Nuclear Programme,” Al Jazeera English, April 9, 2010, retrieved on 12 April 2010, http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2007/12/20085251853218888.html ↩R. Rosenkranz, “Intelligence Squared U.S. Series” [radio transcript], The Rosenkranz Foundation, 2009, retrieved from http://intelligencesquaredus.org/wp-content/uploads/Diplomacy-with-Iran-051209.pdf ↩Hemmer, “Responding to a Nuclear Iran,” in Taking Sides: Clashing Views in World Politics, 255. ↩Barbara Slavin, “How Iran and world powers finally got to yes on a nuclear deal,” Al Jazeera English, November 23, 2014 retrieved on August 30, 2014, http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/11/23/what-the-iran-nucleardealmeans.html ↩Ibid. ↩Rosenkranz, “Intelligence Squared U.S. Series” [radio transcript], 5. ↩Fred Kaplan, Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power, (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2008), 197. ↩“Counter Notes and Sources,” Fighting for a U.S. federal budget that works for all Americans, last modified March 10, 2014, accessed August 31, 2014, https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/notes-sources/. ↩Justine Hofherr, “How a Nuclear Deal With Iran Could Affect Gas Prices,” Boston.com, March 20, 2015, retrived on May 3, 2015, http://www.boston.com/cars/news-and-reviews/2015/03/20/how-nuclear-deal-with-iran-could-affect-gas-prices/zNPJW06GP9cKajAciotM1K/story.html ↩

A Secret Agreement

After ten years… References and Footnotes"Trans-Pacific Partnership Announcement," United States Trade Representative, 2009, accessed May 3, 2015. https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-releases/2009/december/trans-pacific-partnership-announcement. ↩Roger Altman and Richard Haass, "Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership Matters," The New York Times, April 3, 2015, accessed May 3, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/04/opinion/why-the-trans-pacific-partnership-matters.html. ↩"Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) - Investment Chapter," WikiLeaks, 2015, accessed May 3, 2015, https://wikileaks.org/tpp-investment/WikiLeaks-TPP-Investment-Chapter/page-1.html. ↩Bernie Sanders, "The Trans-Pacific Trade (TPP) Agreement must be Defeated," Bernie Sanders - United States Senator for Vermont, accessed May 3, 2015, http://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/the-trans-pacific-trade-tpp-agreement-must-be-defeated?inline=file. ↩Laura Carlsen, "Under Nafta, Mexico Suffered, and the United States Felt Its Pain," November 24, 2013, accessed May 3, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/11/24/what-weve-learned-from-nafta/under-nafta-mexico-suffered-and-the-united-states-felt-its-pain. ↩

A Blueprint for Citizen Replacement

The Association… References and FootnotesAmy Worth and Mark Luce, “Comments on Draft Plan Bay Area and Draft EIR,” Council of Community Housing Organizations, May 16, 2013. ↩Ibid. ↩Tim Redmond, “Planning for Displacement,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 28, 2013. ↩“Electric cars ‘pose environmental threat,’” BBC News, October 4, 2012. ↩Ibid. ↩

“Hunters of Men:” Militarized Police Culture

 There is… References and FootnotesCynthia A. Brown, “Divided Loyalties: Ethical Challenges for America’s Law Enforcement in Post 9/11 America,” Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, 2011. ↩Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, New Press, 2010. ↩Brown, 2011. ↩Ibid. ↩Ibid. ↩ Radley Balko, “What Cop T-Shirts Tell Us About Police Culture,” Huffington Post, Jun. 21, 2013. ↩Ibid. ↩D.K., “What the Cops Say,” The Economist,  Apr. 27, 2015, http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2015/04/policing-america ↩R.W., “Lessons from Camden,” The Economist, Dec. 4, 2014, http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/12/police-and-people ↩Ibid. ↩

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