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Getting Counterinsurgency Wrong
I just published a piece in Foreign Affairs, which draws on my new book, Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare. After two decades, the United States is finally leaving Afghanistan, and only 2,500 U.S. troops remain in Iraq. In both countries, the insurgencies continue. It wasn’t supposed to end this way. In both wars, Washington hoped that imposing democratic reforms could protect the population, win hearts and minds, and...
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Charles J. Sullivan
Charles J. Sullivan is an Assistant Professor of Political Science & International Relations in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nazarbayev University. Dr. Sullivan earned his PhD in Political Science from The George Washington University (2014) in Washington, DC. Prior to joining Nazarbayev University, he worked as an instructor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Dr. Sullivan is a comparativist and specializes...
Spencer Willardson
Spencer Willardson is an Assistant Professor at Stephen F. Austin State University in the Department of Government. He teaches in the National Intelligence and Securities Studies program. He was previously an Assistant Professor at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan, where he served as the first Department Chair of Political Science and International Relations from 2015-2017. His primary research focus is on the ways that arms transfers are...
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Centering George W. Bush in the Etiology of the Iraq War
The second- and third-most downloaded articles at the journal Security Studies both tackle the causes of the Iraq War. This might reflect an imbalance of supply and demand: there aren't that many articles in leading international-relations journals that focus on the question of why the United States invaded Iraq. We can find a number of partial explanations. Many believe that American global dominance was at least a permissive condition; the...
George DeMartino
George DeMartino is a Professor of international economics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies of the University of Denver. He is the co-director of the MA degree in Global Economic Affairs (formerly GFTEI). He has served on faculty of the School since 1993. Prior to that, he taught at Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA), and Trinity College (Hartford, CT). He earned his BA at Harvard University; an MA in Industrial Relations at...
Chris Brown
Chris Brown is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. An LSE graduate (BSc (Econ) International Relations, 1968), he returned to the Department of International Relations at the School as Professor in 1998 and ‘retired’ in 2014. He held the Chair of Politics at Southampton University from 1994-98, and before that was a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent at...
Ben O’Loughlin
Ben O'Loughlin is Professor of International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is Director of the New Political Communication Unit, which was launched in 2007. Before joining Royal Holloway in September 2006 he was a researcher on the ESRC New Security Challenges Programme.