"The Dispensable Nation" is a brave book.
THE DISPENSABLE NATION: American Foreign Policy in Retreat, by Vali Nasr.
She refused to discuss what did not interest her, just as she refused to waste words on the dispensable and predictable elements of a plot.
All we have heard since the lockout ended is that the Knicks didn't have the dispensable assets.
"The Dispensable Nation" constitutes important reading as John Kerry moves into his new job as secretary of state.
Regarding "Beltway foreign policy" (Globalist, Feb. 19): In his book "The Dispensable Nation," Vali Nasr says that "foreign policy has become completely subservient to tactical domestic political considerations".
He later founded and ran a religion, the Dispensable Church, in Santa Fe, N.M., which combined elements of Buddhism, Christianity and other traditions.
Vali Nasr, who will soon publish "The Dispensable Nation," argues that the debt, among other economic woes, has allowed Mr. Obama and other Democrats to justify a retreat from global engagement.
Written by Vali Nasr, an academic who was recruited by the envoy Richard C. Holbrooke to work in the State Department, the book, "The Dispensable Nation," is to be published next month.
A recombinant allele of cspA, cspAΔCWA, was engineered to eliminate the dispensable cell-wall anchor.
To reduce the dispensable effort needed to develop multiple ray-tracing simulators by different research groups, we have successfully used ROBAST for many years to perform optics simulations for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA).
