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Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense and national security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, FrontPage and the online editions of The Weekly Standard, National Review and The American. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. He has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University.

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A Tyranny of Terror

By Alan W. Dowd, ASCF Senior Fellow May 1, 2012 @ 1:02pm

There’s really nothing like the government of Iran anywhere on earth. Sure, Syria grants terrorists prime office space in Damascus and Beirut, and the Kim Dynasty of North Korea has dabbled in terrorism from time to time. But the mullahs who run Iran…

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Pain at the Pump and the Will to Drill

By Alan W. Dowd, ASCF Senior Fellow April 9, 2012 @ 9:16am

The national average for a gallon of gasoline is $3.92—and rising fast. In fact, it was $3.10 per gallon in January 2011, $2.67 per gallon in January 2010 and $1.81 per gallon in January 2009. The bad news is that we’re still months away from the summer driving s…

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A 21st-Century Ellis Island

By Alan W. Dowd, ASCF Senior Fellow April 2, 2012 @ 1:36pm

Like the ebb and flow of the tide, the illegal-immigration issue comes and goes as a hot-button topic. Just compare, for example, how prevalent immigration was in policy debates in 2004 and 2008—and how heated those debates b…

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Fanning the Flame: American Values in the 21st Century

By Alan W. Dowd, ASCF Senior Fellow March 6, 2012 @ 1:47pm
Americans, we are constantly reminded, are disunited and disconnected from one another. We are divided into red and blue states, the “99 percent and the 1 percent,” rural and urban, Boomers and Xers, hawks and doves, labor and management, haves and have-nots, and a kalei…

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Countering China’s Reach in Latin America

By Alan W. Dowd, ASCF Senior Fellow February 10, 2012 @ 1:20pm
Focused on military operations in the Middle East, nuclear threats in Iran and North Korea, and the global threat of terrorism, U.S. policymakers have neglected a growing challenge right here in the Western Hemisphere: the expanding influence and reach of China.