Ivan Eland
Ivan Eland | |
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Born | February 23, 1958 |
Nationality | American |
Education | George Washington University (MBA, PhD) |
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Political party | Libertarian |
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Main interests | Diplomatic relations, nuclear strategy, terrorism studies |
Ivan Eland (/ˈiːlənd/; born February 23, 1958) is an American defense analyst and writer. He is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace and Liberty at the Independent Institute. Eland's writings generally propose libertarian and non-interventionist policies. Books that he has authored include Recarving Rushmore.
Life
[edit]Eland received an M.B.A. in Applied Economics and a Ph.D. in National Security Policy from George Washington University. He has previously served as Director of Defense Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, as Principal Defense Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, as an investigator dealing with national security and intelligence for the Government Accountability Office, and on a House Committee on Foreign Affairs special investigation of allegations that the U.S. sold weapons to Iraq prior to 1991.[1] He has testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
Ivan Eland is the author of Putting "Defense" Back into U.S. Defense Policy (2001), The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed (2004), Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty (2008; updated edition 2014) and Partitioning for Peace: An Exit Strategy for Iraq (2009). He has also written essays, including forty-five in-depth studies on national security issues,[2] and numerous popular articles.
Political opinions
[edit]Eland is a libertarian, generally supporting non-interventionism and limited government. In his 2008 book Recarving Rushmore, Eland argued that historians' rankings of US presidents fail to reflect presidents' actual services to the country. In the book, he rated 40 US presidents on the basis of whether or not their policies promoted peace, prosperity, and liberty during their tenures; John Tyler and Grover Cleveland were ranked the two strongest, while Harry Truman and Woodrow Wilson came in last.
Eland once named Jimmy Carter "the best modern president," praising Carter's restrained foreign policy and deregulation of several American industries.[3] Eland continues to strongly oppose the 2003 invasion of Iraq,[4] and called George W. Bush's presidency "one of the worst of all time." Eland is the Assistant Editor of the Independent Review, writes a regular column for the website Antiwar.com, contributes frequently at Consortium News Robert Parry's website of investigative journalism. Eland is on the Advisory Council of the Democracy Institute.[5]
Eland supports the National Rifle Association of America (NRA); he is a critic of the Affordable Care Act and race-based affirmative action. Regarding global warming, Eland does not believe in climate change. He argues that the threats posed are sensationalized.[6] Eland has appeared on RT, formerly known as Russia Today, a Russian state-sponsored cable television channel, from 2011 to the present.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Ivan Eland profile at Cato Institute website.
- ^ "Ivan Eland".
- ^ Eland, Ivan (January 19, 2009). "Who Should Obama Look to for Advice?: Jimmy Carter". The Independent Institute. Retrieved July 14, 2015.
- ^ "Why the United States Should Not Attack Iraq". Cato Institute.
- ^ Democracy Institute, About Us Archived 2010-11-26 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 8 August 2010
- ^ "Exposing Global Warming Alarmism's Grasp". Cato Institute. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
External links
[edit]- Bio from the Independent Institute
- Bio from the Cato Institute
- Column archive from The Huffington Post
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- The Empire Has No Clothes, Eland's column at Antiwar.com
- 1958 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American male writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- American anti–Iraq War activists
- American columnists
- American foreign policy writers
- American gun rights activists
- American libertarians
- American male bloggers
- American bloggers
- American male non-fiction writers
- American military writers
- American political writers
- Cato Institute people
- George Washington University School of Business alumni
- HuffPost writers and columnists
- Libertarian theorists