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H-Diplo|RJISSF Policy Roundtable II-1: Post-Mortem on Iraq

April 7, 2023March 26, 2023 By Joe Renouard, Jane K. Cramer, Peter L. Hahn, Paul K. MacDonald, David Palkki

The War on Terror defined US foreign policy in the first decade of this century. The counterterrorism security paradigm of the Bush era focused on counterinsurgency against non-state actors in adversarial or failing states, and it entailed the expansion of America’s force projection capabilities (‘stop them there before they attack us here’), expansion of the…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable Review 14-11 on Wolfe-Hunnicutt, The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy

February 6, 2023January 25, 2023 By Robert Vitalis, Nathaniel George, Bryan R. Gibson, David S. Painter, Sara Pursley, Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt

It is my great pleasure to introduce this roundtable review of Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt’s Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq. I began corresponding with the author almost two decades ago, when he was a new graduate student and thinking about dissertation topics. Since then, I watched as he turned a first-rate…

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H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable on Innes, Streets Without Joy

January 30, 2023February 4, 2023 By R. Gerald Hughes, Peter Mancina, Anna Meier, Katharine Petrich, Michael A.K.G. Innes

We must act against the criminal menace of terrorism with the full weight of the law, both domestic and international. We will act to indict, apprehend, and prosecute those who commit the kind of atrocities the world has witnessed in recent weeks. We can act together as free peoples who wish not to see our…

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Roundtable 12-3 on Planning to Fail: The US Wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan

December 21, 2020December 18, 2020 By James J. Wirtz, Jonathan D. Caverley, Keith Shimko, James H. Lebovic

The study of bureaucracy as an influence in the formulation and conduct of foreign and defense policy has receded in popularity since its heyday during the 1960s and 1970s. Today, the limits of bureaucratic processes, the influence of the decorum generated by organizational culture or even the constraints created by the overall structure of government…

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Article Review 129 on “Why Did the United States Invade Iraq in 2003?”

November 14, 2019November 7, 2019 By Jordan Tama

In this important article, Ahsan Butt advances an innovative argument for why the United States invaded Iraq in 2003. Countering other common explanations, Butt argues that the United States was not motivated by a desire to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), promote democracy in the Middle East, or satisfy pro-war domestic…

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Article Review 128 on “Vicarious Retribution in US Public Support for War against Iraq.”

October 17, 2019October 11, 2019 By Shana Kushner Gadarian

Sixteen years after the beginning of the Iraq War, American public support for the war remains a puzzle. Why would the public, scarred by the 9/11 terrorist attacks and overwhelmingly supportive of sending troops to Afghanistan to capture al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and fight terrorism,[1] be willing to use military force on a different…

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Article Review Forum 110 on “Why did the United States Invade Iraq in 2003?”

February 20, 2019November 20, 2019 By Joshua Rovner, Jeremy Pressman, Richard Hanania

Few issues arouse as much debate as the Iraq War. The decision to invade in 2003 was a milestone for U.S. foreign policy and Middle Eastern politics. Advocates of the war believed that the prior status quo was unsustainable, and that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s regime was a ruthless anachronism. The fact that Saddam had…

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Roundtable 10-21 on Cheap Threats:  Why The United States Struggles to Coerce Weak States

December 21, 2018December 24, 2020 By Anne Sartori, Timothy W. Crawford, Todd S. Sechser, Andrew L. Stigler, Dianne Pfundstein Chamberlain

This roundtable debates ideas and evidence in Diane Pfundstein Chamberlain’s recent book, Cheap Threats; Why the United States Struggles to Coerce Weak States. Pfundstein Chamberlain’s book considers the important puzzle described in the title, and in doing so puts forth a surprising new theory of coercive diplomacy. The reviewers praise some aspects of the book,…

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Roundtable 9-22 on Unclear Physics: Why Iraq and Libya Failed to Get the Bomb

August 4, 2017December 19, 2017 By Vipin Narang, Andrew J. Coe, Jacques E.C. Hymans, Austin Long, Rachel Elizabeth Whitlark, Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer

Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer’s new book Unclear Physics: Why Iraq and Libya Failed to Get the Bomb should find itself on the shelf of any serious student of nuclear proliferation, international security, and the internal and external security dynamics of dictatorial regimes. It is by far the best history of Iraq’s and Libya’s failed attempts at acquiring…

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Roundtable 9-3 on Barriers to Bioweapons: The Challenges of Expertise and Weapons Development

October 3, 2016December 24, 2020 By Lynn Eden, Philip R. Egert, Jacques E. C. Hymans, Alexander H. Montgomery, Alex Spelling, Sonia Ben Ouargrham-Gormley

Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley’s outstanding Barriers to Bioweapons demonstrates that while it may be relatively easy to pick your poison, there are very significant barriers to manufacturing it. Her main argument, as our reviewers so clearly explain, is that making bioweapons—that is, ‘weaponizing’ biological agents such as anthrax, smallpox, plague, and many others—has been far more…

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