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Richard Drake

Richard Drake Richard Drake received a Ph.D. in history from UCLA in 1976. His teaching career at the University of Montana began in 1982 where in 2017 he became the inaugural holder of the Lucile Speer Research Chair in Politics and History. His published work includes four books on modern Italian history, including The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy (1989), which will appear in a second edition later this year from Indiana University Press. He has published two books on American foreign policy: The Education of an Anti-Imperialist: Robert La Follette and U.S. Expansion (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013) and Charles Austin Beard: The Return of the Master Historian of American Imperialism (Cornell University Press, 2018). He currently is working on a book with the working title of “Mark Twain and the Course of the American Empire.”

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Israel/ Palestine
Some Israeli perspectives on the tragedy of the Middle East

Some Israeli perspectives on the tragedy of the Middle East

Richard Drake

( Richard Drake) – The sickening events lately occurring in the Middle East have shocked and outraged the conscience of the world. The experts who have tried to pacify the Middle East, whatever their real intentions, obviously have failed to achieve anything but the preservation of a status quo guaranteed to produce one crisis and […]

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Empire and Blowback: Remembering Chalmers Johnson’s Critique of American Imperialism

Empire and Blowback: Remembering Chalmers Johnson’s Critique of American Imperialism

Richard Drake

( Responsible Statecraft) – It has been nearly ten years since Chalmers Johnson died, and twice that long since the publication of “Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire.” That Johnson’s condemnation of American imperialism originated in a conservative political and philosophical tradition makes him a somewhat unusual figure. Such viewpoints more characteristically come […]

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