Most presidents have an intelligible foreign policy. For some it’s bold enough to earn a grandiose name — think George H.W. Bush’s “New World Order” — or at least be labeled “doctrine.” James Monroe’s was to keep other powers out of the western hemisphere, Harry Truman’s to counter the expansion of communism. President Trump has called his “principled realism” but,...
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RALEIGH — A “who’s who” of scholars and intelligence experts will gather Aug. 31-Sept. 2 for the third annual Raleigh International Spy Conference at the N.C. Museum of History. The theme for the 2005 event is “Old Spies, New Threats.” Topics will include a comparison of claims made by Sen. Joseph McCarthy to newly available declassified information, the influence of the Left on Hollywood activists, an analysis of the decline of the Communist Party U.S.A. from 1930 to 1945, and the emerging danger of Chinese espionage in the United States.
