THE WORLD AFTER IRAQ:  A SPECIAL ISSUE
Volume 14 Number 4

Photo: U.S. Marine Holds Iraqi Girl in Central Iraq.
U.S. Navy doctor Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Sumption, deployed with the 101st Marine Expeditionary battalion, Charlie Company, holds an Iraqi girl in central Iraq on March 29, 2003. Confused front line crossfire ripped apart an Iraqi family after local soldiers appeared to force civilians toward U.S. Marine positions.  Sumption is a cardiologist based out of Portsmouth Hospital in Norfolk, VA.

Photo by DAMIR SAGOLJ. REUTERS 2003.

Editors' Note

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Section One: Breaking Out of the Post-Cold War Era

The Challenge for the United States in the Post-11 September Era: An Overview

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Joseph J.  Sisco

Constructive Internationalism: An  American Foreign Policy for the Early Twenty-First Century

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William H. Lewis; Burton M.  Sapin

The Critical Nature of U.S. Policy in  the Middle East

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Stansfield Turner

The Emerging Security Environment: Preemptive War and International Terrorism after Iraq

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Vincent M. Cannistraro

Reflections on an Elective War: Are We Safer Now?

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Nikolaos A.  Stavrou

Rogue Nations, States of Concern, and  Axes of Evil: Examining the Politics of Disarmament in a Changing Geopolitical Context

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Raymond Muhula

Section Two: Picking Up Pieces at  Home and Abroad

Restless Empire: Washington's Goals  and Problems in the Islamic Arc

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Ted Galen  Carpenter

Operation Iraqi Freedom and the New  Middle East

116

Bernard Reich

Subregional Dynamics in the Western  Mediterranean

139

Stephen C. Calleya

Bush's Wars and the State of Civil Liberties

158

Ivan Eland

North Africa and the War on  Terror

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Mohamed A. El-Khawas