Douglas Bandow (born April 15, 1957) is an American
political writer working as a Senior Fellow at the
Cato Institute
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. In 2005, Bandow was forced to resign from the Cato Institute after it was revealed that for over ten years, he accepted payments in exchange for publishing articles favorable to various clients. Bandow referred to the activities as "a lapse of judgment" and said that he accepted payments for "between 12 and 24 articles," each article costing approximately $2,000. Bandow was subsequently allowed to return to the Cato Institute.
Bandow regularly writes on military
non-interventionism
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, and is a critic of
NATO enlargement.
Background
Bandow obtained his bachelor's degree in
economics
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Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...
from
Florida State University in
Tallahassee
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in 1976.
He completed a
J.D. degree from the
Stanford Law School
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in
Palo Alto, California
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The city was es ...
in 1979. He worked in the
Reagan administration
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as special assistant to the president and edited the political magazine ''Inquiry''.
[Doug Bandow profile]
at Cato Institute website.
Career
Bandow resigned from Cato in December, 2005 after admitting he accepted payments from lobbyist
Jack Abramoff
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over approximately ten years in return for publishing articles favorable to Abramoff's clients. The articles identified his affiliation with Cato, but he did not tell Cato about the payments. He has referred to these activities as "a lapse of judgment" and said that he accepted payments for "between 12 and 24 articles."
Copley News Service, which had carried Bandow's syndicated column for a number of years, suspended him immediately.
In January 2006, Bandow joined the non-profit
Citizen Outreach as Vice President of Policy. Bandow later rejoined the Cato Institute as a Senior Fellow, where he continues to publish through its various outlets and appear at various Cato-sponsored events.
[
Bandow is on the faculty of the ]Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
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.[ Bandow also is the Robert A. Taft Fellow at the American Conservative Defense Alliance and the Senior Fellow in International Religious Persecution at the ]Institute on Religion and Public Policy
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.[Doug Bandow biography]
at Huffington Post. Bandow's articles have been published in periodicals like '' Foreign Policy'', '' Harper's'', ''National Interest
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'', ''National Review
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'', ''The New Republic
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'', '' Orbis'', ''The American Spectator
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'', ''Time
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'', ''Newsweek
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'', and '' Fortune'', as well as newspapers like ''The New York Times
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'', ''The Wall Street Journal
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'', and ''The Washington Post
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''. Bandow's column "La Prensa: Economic Freedom and the Press," syndicated in 1988 by Copley News Service, won the 1989 Mencken Award for Best Editorial or Op-Ed Column. He blogs for ''The Huffington Post
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'', ''Forbes
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'',
and is a former columnist for Antiwar.com
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Histor ...
.[ He has appeared as a commentator on ]ABC
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, CBS
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, NBC
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, CNN
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, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC
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.[ Bandow is also a Contributing Editor to the national security publication 1945.
]
Views on Russia and Ukraine
Since the start of the Russian war against Ukraine, Bandow authored opinion pieces on why the U.S. should not help Ukraine against Russia. Bandow's current non-interventionist stance regarding Ukraine differs from his own position in 2003, when he questioned the favorable treatment of a hostile Russia at the expense of a friendly Ukraine: "But why not adopt a similar approach to Ukraine, the second-largest piece of the former Soviet Union, which has generally backed America? Especially since there are powerful forces pushing Kiev towards Russia's orbit."
Trump administration
Bandow characterized President Donald Trump
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as
Bibliography
* ''Foreign Follies: America's New Global Empire,'' Xulon Press Xulon Press (pronounced "zoo-lon") is a hybrid publisher owned by the Christian publishing company Salem Media Group. In 2007 it claimed to be "the largest publisher of Christian books in North America", claiming more than 3,900 print-on-demand tit ...
, 2006,
* ''The Korean Conundrum: America's Troubled Relations with North and South Korea'' (co-author with Ted Galen Carpenter), Palgrave Macmillan
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, 2004,
* ''Wealth, Poverty, and Human Destiny'' (co-author with David L. Schindler), Intercollegiate Studies Institute
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It was founded in 1953 by Frank Chodorov with William F. Buckley Jr. as its first president. It sponsor ...
, 2002,
* ''Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World,'' Cato Institute, 1996,
* ''Perpetuating Poverty: The World Bank, the IMF, and the Developing World'' (co-author with Ian Vasquez), Cato Institute, 1994,
* ''The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology,'' Transaction Publishers
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, 1994,
* ''The U.S.-South Korean Alliance: Time for a Change'' (co-author with Ted Galen Carpenter), Transaction Publishers, 1992,
* ''Human Resources and Defense Manpower,'' National Defense University Press
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, 1990
* ''The Politics of Plunder: Misgovernment in Washington,'' Transaction Publishers, 1990,
* ''Beyond Good Intentions: A Biblical View of Politics,'' Crossway, 1988,
References
External links
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1957 births
Living people
20th-century American non-fiction writers
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20th-century Presbyterians
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21st-century American male writers
21st-century Presbyterians
American columnists
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Cato Institute people
Florida State University alumni
HuffPost writers and columnists
Non-interventionism
People associated with the Jack Abramoff scandals
People from Springfield, Virginia
People from Washington, D.C.
Stanford Law School alumni
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