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William R. Hawkins is a consultant specializing in international economic and national security issues. He is a former economics professor and Republican Congressional staff member.
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The General who Invented Baseball
Forfeiting U.S. Leadership in Space
The Only Way to Suppress Pirates
Bernanke Sees The Problem, But Not The Solution
The International Economy Remains a Battleground
Egyptian Military Vital to Crafting Democratic Order
The Party of Counter-Revolution
Arms Races Are Normal And Must Be Won
Stronger Actions Needed To Grow U.S. Economy
The Delusion Of Peaceful Commerce With China
The "Peaceful Rise" Of China's New Warplane
Will Strategy Guide U.S.-China Diplomacy?
Roger Milliken, American Colossus, R.I.P.
Making 2011 the Year of Economic Growth
Japan Sounds the Alarm on China, Does the U.S. Hear It?
American Values and National Sovereignty
Cancun: The True Nature Of Climate Issues Revealed
Economic Policy: Concentrate on What Matters
China Continues to Protect North Korea
Speaking Loudly, But Doing Nothing on Trade Policy
Deficit Commission Prepares for the Wrong War
G20 Failure Means U.S. Must Control Its Own Fate
Reject Alarmist Attacks on Federal Reserve Policy
China Uses UN to Honor "Butcher of Beijing"
As Cultures Clash, the Future is Up For Grabs
An Active Trade Policy is Needed for Recovery
Glenn Beck, Cecil Rhodes and The Fabians
Needed: Conservative Statism, Not Anarchy
House Acts Against Two Chinese Threats
China Crosses The Adam Smith Divide
Economy: Good Ideas Are Out There
The "Other" Deficit That Weakens America
Peace: The Invention That Doesn’t Work
A Cold Economic War is Better Than a Hot Naval War
New Reports Warn of Chinese Naval Buildup
China Uses Trade as a Weapon of Strategy
The “Green” Assault on America Continues
U.S.-China Confrontation Widens
Exclusive: Why Did U.S. Kowtow to Chinese Naval Ambitions?
Exclusive: Masking Appeasement Behind International Law?
Exclusive: Is the Treasury Scared of China?
Exclusive: Conservatives and the Jobs Issue
Exclusive: Failed States and Dangerous Regimes
Exclusive: Chinese Self-Interest Contrives Phony Currency “Reform”
Exclusive: UN Resolution on Iran Open to Interpretation
U.S. Talks Strategy, China Implements Strategy
Exclusive: Big vs. Strong Government
Exclusive: Taking Economic Policy to the Streets
Exclusive: UN Dithers While Dangerous Alliances Form
Exclusive: Desperate to Trade with the Enemy?
Exclusive: National vs. Class Interest
Exclusive: Navy Nears Tipping Point as New Threats Rise
Exclusive: Iran’s Reasons for Wanting the Bomb Affects Sanctions
Exclusive: To Appease China, Obama Administration Accepts Empty Rhetoric
Exclusive: Is Business Waking Up? From Dream to Reality in China
Exclusive: China’s ‘Friends’ Work for Them, Not Us
Exclusive: Time for Corporate Citizens to Prove their Loyalty
Exclusive: Air Force Tanker Bid – Jobs and More
Exclusive: Glenn Beck – Less than Half the Battle
Exclusive: Inadequate Budget Support for Air and Naval Power
Exclusive: Glenn Beck: The Anti-Conservative
Exclusive: Iran and China – Is the Engagement Over?
Exclusive: Anglo-American Solidarity and the Iraq Inquiry
Exclusive: National Recovery Requires Banking Reform
Exclusive: Building Domestic Markets to Create Jobs
Exclusive: Counterterrorism Must Not Be a Diversion from More Dangerous Threats
Exclusive: The Chinese Version of ‘Free Trade Imperialism’
Exclusive: Brzezinski and CFR Promote Appeasement of Iran (Part Two of Two)
Exclusive: Brzezinski and CFR Promote Appeasement of Iran (Part One of Two)
Exclusive: Sherlock Holmes and the Empire
Exclusive: Copenhagen Failed; Hooray, Hooray!
Exclusive: Three Strikes against a Copenhagen Agreement
Exclusive: The Plot to ‘Steal the Deal’ in Copenhagen
Exclusive: Why Was Afghanistan ‘Neglected?’
Exclusive: Surge Now, but Train for the Long Run
Exclusive: Terrorism is a Tactic: Hasan is a Traitor
Exclusive: The Treason of ‘Climate Justice’
Exclusive: Keep it ‘Made in America’
Exclusive: Applying Economic Lessons from Spain’s Hapsburgs to America Today
Exclusive: Trade Deficits Devalued the Dollar
Exclusive: Disarmament: The Perennial Folly
Exclusive: Change and Continuity in U.S. Iranian Strategy
Exclusive: Decoding China’s Hu Jintao’s UN Speech
Exclusive: Protectionism Has a Long Way to Go
Exclusive: No Permission Slips Needed in Trade Policy
Exclusive: China’s ‘Cyber Militia’ Threat
Exclusive: Improved U.S.-Taiwan Defense Cooperation Needed
Exclusive: A Nuclear Renaissance Beckons
Exclusive: Obama Ignores Asian Arms Race to America’s Peril
Exclusive: Green Delusions Drive World Conflict
Exclusive: U.S. Should Build (And Sell) More F-22 Fighters
Exclusive: The General who Invented Baseball
Exclusive: Chinese Economic Warfare
Exclusive: Iran’s Unrest Shows Power of Economic Sanctions
Exclusive: Obama Should Build On, Not Wreck, Bush’s Mideast Legacy
Exclusive: Auto Industry – Is Gov’t Intervention in Line with National Interests?
Exclusive: A Canadian Reminder of Fading Values
Exclusive: Obama’s Appeasement Express Continues with the Nomination of Gov. Huntsman to China
Exclusive: The Thin Line Between Espionage and Commerce
Exclusive: The Emerging Republican Majority – 40 Years Later
Exclusive: The Illusion of Chinese Help against North Korea
Exclusive: Conservatism After the Tea Parties
Exclusive: Strength, Respect and Influence – The Foundation of Foreign Policy
Exclusive: No ‘Normalization’ Until the Castro Regime is Gone
Exclusive: The $700 Billion Gorilla Obama Wants to Ignore
Exclusive: U.S. House Recommits to Taiwan’s Security and Self-Rule
Exclusive: Capitalism: Trust but Verify
Exclusive: Prudence over Ideology in Trade Policy
Exclusive: The Ten Year Rule of Military Weakness
Exclusive: Moving Ahead with Buy America
Exclusive: Obama Blinks on Trade Challenge
Exclusive: Does Africa Beckon? Should It?
Exclusive: Presidents and History – Bush, Lincoln and Polk
Exclusive: Red, Green and Browner
Exclusive: What Would Alexander Hamilton Do?
Exclusive: War Toys – Playing to Win
Exclusive: New Reports Cite China’s Dangerous Rise
Exclusive: Wall Street Benefits from Attacks on Conservatives
Exclusive: Global Economic Rivalries Intensify During Crisis
Exclusive: Review: NBC’s ‘My Own Worst Enemy,’ Starring Christian Slater
Exclusive: Defending Taiwan: Now and 50 Years Ago
Exclusive: China’s Ambition – Eclipse America in Space
Exclusive: Providing Defense for Europe Weakens Defense at Home
Exclusive: Olympics Highlights Beijing’s Corrupting Influence
Exclusive: Free Trade and the Delusions of Post-Doha Ideology
Exclusive: The Asia America Initiative: Working to Stabilize the Strategic Philippines
Exclusive: Changing the Climate or the Balance of Power?
Exclusive: Can Democracy Deliver the Goods?
Exclusive: French White Paper: Ambitions Exceed Means
Exclusive: Tanker Bid Shows Weakness of U.S. Policy
Exclusive: The Sham Dialogue with China
Exclusive: The Cure for Shortages is Growth
Exclusive: Preparing for Larger Threats