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Article Review 27 on “What Really Happened in Planning for Postwar Iraq?” and “After War”

April 9, 2014September 28, 2015 By H-Diplo

Two years after the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, as the Barack Obama administration contends with a drawdown in Afghanistan, significant new scholarship is reengaging persistent questions about both conflicts. Stephen Benedict Dyson and Renanah Miles share a concern with some of the conventional wisdom that has emerged over the years, and they offer sharply focused…

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Article Review 26 on “Forced to be Free? Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Rarely Leads to Democratization.”

February 14, 2014September 28, 2015 By H-Diplo

Will the international community be able to build consolidated democratic regimes in Afghanistan or Iraq in the context of decade-long military interventions in those nations? In “Forced to be Free?” Alexander Downes and Jonathan Monten argue persuasively that if foreign nations intervene in a state simply to impose a new leader on that state, democracy…

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Roundtable 6-3 on Achieving Nuclear Ambitions: Scientists, Politicians, and Proliferation

October 18, 2013June 30, 2018 By H-Diplo

Many scholars and policymakers concerned with the proliferation of nuclear weapons assume that the passage of time has made it much easier for states and terrorist groups to achieve their nuclear ambitions. For example, in their book The Nuclear Express, Thomas Reed and Danny Stillman reflect this common assumption: “Any well-industrialized society with the intellectual…

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Article Review 24 on “When Duty Calls: A Pragmatic Standard of Humanitarian Intervention.”

May 28, 2013December 24, 2020 By H-Diplo

Robert Pape adds to a growing literature that is trying to develop a more cohesive approach to controlling or mitigating episodes of genocide and mass atrocity violence. His call for a more pragmatic approach is certainly laudable and his claims that the world has not fared well in preventing past genocides is certainly correct. Overall,…

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Response to Article Review 21 on “Testing the Surge” and “Correspondence: Assessing the Synergy Thesis in Iraq”

May 22, 2013October 5, 2015 By H-Diplo

Competing accounts of why violence declined in Iraq in 2007 have shaped U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, debates about force sizing and doctrines on counterinsurgency, and academic research on the dynamics of armed conflict. Nevertheless, few scholars have attempted to test these competing accounts against one another systematically. “Testing the Surge”[1] approached this issue by combining…

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Article Review 21 on “Testing the Surge: Why Did Violence Decline in Iraq in 2007?”

April 10, 2013September 28, 2015 By H-Diplo

The 2007 deployment of nearly 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Iraq, colloquially known as ‘the surge,’ cast a long shadow over subsequent U.S. foreign policy, including the 2009 decision to similarly ‘surge’ troops in Afghanistan. It will further affect the upcoming confirmation hearings for Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, where Hagel’s opposition the surge while…

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Roundtable 5-2 on The Iraq Wars and America’s Military Revolution

March 18, 2013September 28, 2015 By H-Diplo

In January 1955, Michael Roberts, a Professor of early modern Swedish history, approached the podium at Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. A veteran of the Second World War and post-war government service in Stockholm, he had been at the university for a year. Roberts was working on a biography of the warrior-king Gustavus Adolphus, and…

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Roundtable 5-1 on Warlords: Strong-Arm Brokers in Weak States

March 4, 2013December 24, 2020 By H-Diplo

How can we understand the important phenomenon of modern-day warlords, often associated with state failure and transborder criminality even as state leaders frequently rely upon them as a source of order or peace in the most difficult of conditions? Kimberly Marten’s Warlords: Strong-Arm Brokers in Weak States blazes a new trail in answering this question,…

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Roundtable 4-7 on Coalitions of Convenience: United States Military Interventions After the Cold War

November 16, 2012September 28, 2015 By ISSF editor

Sarah Kreps has made a superb contribution to the burgeoning academic literature on the causes of military intervention. This literature reflects the enormity of the task social scientists face in comprehending world affairs. This enormity stems from the many choices social scientists have to make in order to investigate reality. Unlike physicists, they do not…

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Roundtable 4-6, “American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security”

November 5, 2012January 28, 2016 By ISSF editor

The community of national security scholars benefits whenever Richard K. Betts publishes a new article or book, because his work is consistently well researched, gracefully written, thoughtful, and provocative. I find this work to be no exception and said so on the jacket cover when the book was published. The distinguished reviewers gathered here agree…

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