updated Mon. April 15, 2024
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CNBC
March 28, 2018
Ivan Eland, Center on Peace and Liberty at the Independent Institute, discusses the meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as well as what to expect for President Trump's promised meeting with Kim. Watch CNBC Live TV ...
WGN Radio
March 12, 2018
... Author of “Dear Client: This Book Will Teach You How To Get What You Want from Creative People“). Ivan Eland (Sr. Fellow & Director of The Center on Peace and Liberty at The Independent Institute) then joined the program to provide the background on the expected denuclearization talks between the ...
HuffPost
January 3, 2018
For all his revolutionary talk on the campaign trail, Donald Trump, as presidents have before him, has been co-opted by the U.S. foreign policy establishment to run pretty much the same national security strategy as his predecessors. That is because new presidents, most of them former governors, have ...
HuffPost
December 19, 2017
Predictably, President Trump's declaration that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and that he eventually intends to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to that city caused protests, rioting, violence, and even military strikes in the West Bank and Gaza and protests around the world. Trump is indirectly ...
RT
December 7, 2017
Ivan Eland, director of the Center on Peace and Liberty, says that ISIS may become “a guerilla force,” adding that there's also a terrorist force “that could plague Europe for a while.” He said: “There is always a question of who is going to occupy the lands that ISIS had occupied before they were defeated.
HuffPost
November 28, 2017
In an effort to further tighten the screws on North Korea in what is likely to be another failed U.S. attempt to convince North Korea to give up its nuclear program, President Trump put that country back on its list of countries sponsoring terrorism. North Korea will join Iran, Sudan and Syria on the list.
The Beacon
November 7, 2017
Ivan Eland, Ph.D., is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace and Liberty at the Independent Institute, a non-profit, research and educational organization that promotes the power of independent thinking to boldly advance peaceful, prosperous, and free societies grounded in a commitment to ...
HuffPost
September 27, 2017
President Trump's recent rant to the United Nations was a rehash of George W. Bush's post 9/11 “Axis of Evil” fantasy in the 2002 State of the Union, which ultimately took the United States down the road to disaster with the ill-fated invasion and occupation of Iraq. Trump at the U.N. said: Terrorists and ...
HuffPost
July 5, 2017
During his campaign for the presidency, Donald Trump touted his nationalist “America First” foreign policy, which implied that he wanted to stay out of foreign brushfire wars. Even before that, he tweeted his disapproval of American involvement of the Afghan War. Yet now he has delegated the authority to ...
HuffPost
June 19, 2017
President Donald Trump has always had contradictions in his “tough guy” national security policy. For starters, he has proposed a nearly 10 percent increase in defense spending, but also claims that his demands for U.S. allies to spend more on defense are producing results. And during his campaign, ...
Huffington Post
March 20, 2017
The recent North Korean missile tests raise questions about contradictions in President Donald Trump's national security policies. During his campaign Trump implied that the United States should fight fewer wars overseas and demanded that U.S. dependents, Japan and South Korea, do more for their own ...
Huffington Post
December 7, 2015
Ivan Eland is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at the Independent Institute. His most recent book is Eleven Presidents: Promises vs. Results in Achieving Limited Government (Independent Institute, 2017). Dr. Eland is a graduate of Iowa State University and received an M.B.A. in applied ...
