SIWPS Senior Research Scholar Rajan Menon argued in the Los Angeles Times today that Ukraine should make Russia cover the costs of government in Ukraine’s pro-Russia breakaway regions in return for a pledge not to seek NATO membership. Read the full Op-Ed on the Los Angeles Times website.
SIWPS Member and frequent media contributor Stuart Gottlieb writes to The New York Times on the recently released Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA detention and interrogation programs. Read the letter on The New York Times website.
Séverine Autesserre’s book Peaceland will be the subject of an upcoming television program produced by the Carnegie Council. The program will air on CUNY TV on Monday, December 15 at 10am, 4pm and 10pm, and on Saturday, December 20 at 5pm. It will also air on MHz Worldview on Sunday, December 14 at 10am. Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention suggests a new explanation for why […]
SIWPS affiliate Andrew Bacevich wrote in The Boston Globe today that the newly released U.S. Senate report on CIA interrogation methods illustrates how the permanent war footing of the U.S. national security apparatus systematically leads to abuse and lack of accountability for the powerful. Read the article on The Boston Globe website.
Séverine Autesserre’s book Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention has received an Honorable Mention in the 2015 competition for the prestigious Chadwick F. Alger Prize, awarded by the International Studies Association (ISA). According to the ISA website, “the Chadwick F. Alger Prize recognizes the best book published in the previous calendar year on the subject […]
SIWPS Member Austin Long has won the 2014 Amos Perlmutter Prize for the best manuscript authored by a junior faculty member received by The Journal of Strategic Studies. The winning article, entitled “Stalking the Secure Second Strike,” was coauthored by Brendan Green. “Stalking the Secure Second Strike” appears in the February 2014 issue of The Journal of […]
Daniel Oleks, a 2006 SIPA graduate and former Departmental Research Assistant for the Saltzman Institute, reflects on his relationship with international relations icon Kenneth Waltz in a piece published in the Fall 2014 edition of Columbia Magazine. Daniel’s one-time agreement to drive Dr. Waltz and his wife to their home in Maine turned into a journey […]
Saltzman Institute Director Richard K. Betts appears in the November/December 2014 issue of Foreign Affairs with an article laying out the strategic principles that should guide U.S. defense policy during a time of constrained budgets and constant war. Read the article in its entirety on the Foreign Affairs website.
SIWPS Member Séverine Autesserre talks with the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) about her new book Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention. Listen to the interview here. Peaceland suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic […]
In a letter to the editor published in The New York Times today, SIWPS Member Stuart Gottlieb argues that analogies between U.S. involvement in Syria and Vietnam overlook a crucial aspect of the Syrian crisis: the gravity of the threat posed by ISIS to the U.S. and to vital U.S. interests in the Middle East. The letter is a response […]
