Ivan Eland

Ivan Eland is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at the Independent Institute. He is involved in economics and public policy, as well as national security. He is affiliated with the CATO Institute, House of Foreign Affairs Committee, Congressional Budget Office, US General Accounting Office, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, House Government Reform Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee. Eland also sits on the Democracy Institute's Advisory Council.

Publications

Books

• Ivan Eland, The Failure of Counterinsurgency: Why Hearts and Minds Are Seldom Won, published by Praeger, July 19, 2013.
• Ivan Eland, No War for Oil, published by The Independent Institute, 2011.
• Ivan Eland, Partitioning for Peace, published by The Independent Institute, 2009.
• Ivan Eland, Recarving Rushmore, published by The Independent Institute, 2008.
• Ivan Eland, The Empire Has No Clothes (Updated Edition), published by The Independent Institute, 2008.
• Ivan Eland, The Empire Has No Clothes (First Edition), published by The Independent Institute, 2004.
• Ivan Eland, Putting "Defense" Back into U.S. Defense Policy: Rethinking U.S. Security in the Post-Cold War World, published by Praeger, 1 September 2001.

Articles & Opinion

• Ivan Eland, 'America's Hypocrisy on Ukraine', Huffington Post, 21 July 2014.
• Ivan Eland, 'Rick Perry Wrongly Smears Rand Paul on Foreign Policy', Huffington Post, 14 July 2014.
• Ivan Eland, 'No More U.S. Intervention in Iraq', Huffington Post, 8 July 2014.
• Ivan Eland, 'Resolving Conflicts in Artificial States', Huffington Post, 7 July 2014.
• Ivan Eland, 'World War I, Rather Than World War II, Is Key for U.S. Foreign Policy', Huffington Post, 30 June 2014.
• Ivan Eland, 'Dick Cheney's Outrageous Statements', Huffington Post, 23 June 2014.
• Ivan Eland, 'Worst Effect of U.S. Afghan War', Huffington Post, 9 June 2014.
• Ivan Eland, 'A Messy Endgame to the Afghan War', Huffington Post, 3 June 2014.
• Ivan Eland, 'U.S. Imperialism and Nigerian Schoolgirls', Huffington Post, 28 May 2014.
• Ivan Eland, 'U.S. Alliances Encourage Asian Allies to Be More Antagonistic Toward China', Huffington Post, 20 may 2014.
• Ivan Eland, 'Public Hysteria Over Boko Haram May Be Counterproductive', Huffington Post, 12 May 2014.
• Ivan Eland, 'Despite Criticism, Obama's Foreign Policy Is Better Than That of Recent Presidents', Huffington Post, 5 May 2014.
• Ivan Eland, 'Despite the Crisis Over Ukraine, America Will Likely Need Russia Soon', Huffington Post, 29 April 2014.
• Ivan Eland, 'United States Accelerates a Counterproductive Drone War in Yemen', Huffington Post, 23 April 2014.
• Ivan Eland, 'Russia in Crimea -- Not 'Munich 1938' Yet Again', Huffington Post, 8 April 2014.
• Ivan Eland, 'Don't Free Spy Jonathan Pollard', Huffington Post, 1 April 2014.
• Ivan Eland, 'Russia Has a National Strategy that Matches the Times -- Why Doesn't the U.S.?', Huffington Post, 26 March 2014.
• Ivan Eland, 'U.S. Security Agencies Are Out of Control', Huffington Post, 19 March 2014.
• Ivan Eland, 'Why Is the United States So Hypocritical in Foreign Policy?', Huffington Post, 11 March 2014.
• Ivan Eland, 'In the Long Term, Surprisingly, Putin's Solution for Ukraine May Be the Best', Huffington Post, 5 March 2014.

Affiliations

• Democracy Institute
• Cato Institute