{"id":4024,"date":"2007-11-02T14:21:58","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T21:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/02\/new-directions-for-peace-and-security-nov-6-oakland\/"},"modified":"2007-11-02T17:50:33","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T00:50:33","slug":"new-directions-for-peace-and-security-nov-6-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/02\/new-directions-for-peace-and-security-nov-6-oakland\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;New Directions for Peace and Security&#8217;: Nov. 6 Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.org\/events\/detail.asp?eventID=128\">At the Independent Institute<\/a> in Oakland, California, on Tuesday, November 6:<\/p>\n<p>For more than a century U.S. foreign policy\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhether conducted by Democrats or Republicans\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhas been based on the assumption that Americans\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 interests are served best by intervening abroad to secure markets, fight potential enemies far from American shores, or engage in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153democratic nation building.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d But, what is the record of such policies, including now in Iraq? What lessons can America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s earlier foreign policy tradition of noninterventionism\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhich largely prevailed before the 20th century\u00e2\u20ac\u201doffer for today? Would a peace strategy based on free trade and property rights instead promote both security and international harmony? Based on the new book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Opposing-Crusader-State-Alternatives-Interventionism\/dp\/1598130137\/antiwarbookstore\/\">Opposing the Crusader State<\/a><\/em>, experts Carl P. Close, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, James L. Payne, and Edward P. Stringham will discuss these critical issues.<\/p>\n<p>Reception: 6:30 pm. Program: 7:00 pm<br \/>\nAdmission: $15 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 $10 for Institute Members<br \/>\n$27 Special Admission includes one copy of <em>Opposing the Crusader State<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 $22 Members.<br \/>\nLocation: The Independent Institute Conference Center, Oakland, CA.<br \/>\n100 Swan Way, Oakland, CA 94621-1428<br \/>\nPhone: (510) 632-1366<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.org\/aboutus\/map.asp\">Map and directions.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Independent Institute in Oakland, California, on Tuesday, November 6: For more than a century U.S. foreign policy\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhether conducted by Democrats or Republicans\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhas been based on the assumption that Americans\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 interests are served best by intervening abroad to secure markets, fight potential enemies far from American shores, or engage in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153democratic nation building.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d But, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}