{"id":4110,"date":"2015-10-19T22:14:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T22:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/10\/19\/malici-sounds-off-on-campaign-tough-talk\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:49:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:49:26","slug":"malici-sounds-off-on-campaign-tough-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/malici-sounds-off-on-campaign-tough-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Malici sounds off on campaign tough talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/akan-malici-cropped1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19545 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/akan-malici-cropped1-medium.jpg\" alt=\"akan malici cropped\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/245;\" \/><\/a>Amid the 24\/7 sound bites spewing across the airwaves from presidential hopefuls are words like \u201cwe need the strongest military on the face of the planet,\u201d or those from Republican front-runner Donald Trump who says he wants our military \u201cso big and so strong and so great\u201d that \u201cwe\u2019re never going to have to use it.\u201d Furman University Political Science professor Akan Malici says don\u2019t be hoodwinked by political tough talk, and he questions whether the candidates are recalling fundamental lessons of international political history. Read more in a piece he wrote for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2015\/10\/16\/column-fall-tough-talk-candidates\/74072390\/\">GreenvilleOnline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the 24\/7 sound bites spewing across the airwaves from presidential hopefuls are words like \u201cwe need the strongest military on the face of the planet,\u201d or those from Republican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":15437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}