Author Archives: Leon Hadar

About Leon Hadar

Leon Hadar is a foreign policy analyst, author, and contributing editor at TAC. He holds a Ph.D. from American University, and is the author of the books Quagmire: America in the Middle East and Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East. He is a Wikistrat expert and former Cato Institute research fellow, and his articles have appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Washington Times, The Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and the National Interest.

What Does It Mean To Be an American?

Posted on April 30, 2013

Why the immigration debate should be about language and culture more than jobs—and not just race.

What Jackie Robinson Can Teach Rand Paul

Posted on April 17, 2013

Is today’s GOP the party for someone who would break the color barrier?

The Sun Sets on the “Special Relationship”

Posted on April 15, 2013

What would Margaret Thatcher do in a post-American world?

How Do You Say “Quagmire” in French?

Posted on March 22, 2013

The unlearned lessons of the Vietnam War

How Capitalism Saved Chile

Posted on March 13, 2013

And what “No”—an anti-Pinochet film Milton Friedman might have loved—teaches us about regime change.

Waiting for Senator Fulbright

Posted on February 13, 2013

My first reaction to Senator Rand Paul’s foreign policy address at the …

Should the Redskins Go Coed?

Posted on February 11, 2013

Why we shouldn’t have women in combat

Dreaming of Robert Taft, Getting John Bolton

Posted on February 4, 2013

After following Chuck Hagel’s Senate confirmation hearings and reading Daniel McCarthy’s thoughtful post …

It’s Still Jon Huntsman’s Moment

Posted on January 31, 2013

Republicans don’t need a grand transformation, just a sensible candidate.

Is Barack Obama Really a Realist?

Posted on January 28, 2013

At the risk of turning this site into an online seminar on …

What Would Kissinger Do?

Posted on January 22, 2013

Historians studying Russian and German foreign policy in the last century have …

Is Barack Obama a Republican Realist?

Posted on January 14, 2013

His foreign policy recalls George H.W. Bush—and his domestic policy could be Ike’s or Nixon’s.

The Arab Spring: A Reality Check

Posted on December 14, 2012

A few days after the fall of the Mubarak regime in Egypt …

The Party of Silicon Valley?

Posted on November 30, 2012

Nate Silver had an interesting piece yesterday which concludes based on statistical …

Huntsman (or Zakaria) for State

Posted on November 29, 2012

The guys at MSNBC allege that Senator John McCain’s campaign against the …

‘I Like to Be in America’

Posted on November 26, 2012

“Puerto Rico, You lovely island . . .” “I like to be …

The GOP’s Asian-American Fiasco

Posted on November 9, 2012

How Republicans alienated a once-allied bloc of voters

We Are Not All Westerners Now

Posted on October 18, 2012

The world’s rising powers will take different paths to modernization

Disseminating American Ideals

Posted on March 26, 2012

Americans are once again surprised to learn that the rest of humanity …

The Reality of American Power: Why Robert Kagan Is Wrong

Posted on February 22, 2012

As a life-long hypochondriac, I was laughing out loud when reading the …

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