SIWPS Affiliate Andrew J. Bacevich appeared in The Washington Post today with an opinion piece underlining the risks and uncertain benefits of the Obama Administration’s campaign against ISIS, placing it in the context of the decades-long history of U.S. military intervention in the Middle East. Read the full article on The Washington Post website.
SIWPS Member Kimberly Marten’s latest article for the Huffington Post, “The Flawed Logic of Russian Sanctions (And Why They Might be Useful Anyway)” can now be read on the Huffington Post website. Read it here.
SIWPS Member and Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics Robert Jervis has written a piece for Political Science Quarterly titled “Obama’s War on ISIS: But What Does this Mean?” Click here to read the full article on the PSQ website.
African Arguments has posted a rave review of SIWPS member Séverine Autesserre’s new book Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention. Take a look here.
Video of the September 12 Saltzman Institute panel discussion “ISIS in Iraq, Syria, and the US” is now available for viewing on the Columbia SIPA Youtube channel. During the event, Saltzman Institute members and frequent media contributors Austin Long and Stuart Gottlieb discussed the growing regional and global threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq […]
In a piece published today for The National Interest, SIWPS Member Stuart Gottlieb presents four “areas of concern” that show why ISIS is a threat to the U.S. homeland. “The fact is groups like ISIS always think and act in terms of both local and global ambitions—or, in the parlance of the “defensive jihad” they believe they are waging, their targets are […]
SIWPS Member Austin Long appeared on PBS NewHour today to answer questions about the new U.S. strategy against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Dr. Long pointed out that even without a large U.S. ground troop presence special forces and drones could help identify targets for airstrikes, but he noted that the absence of substantial U.S. […]
SIWPS member and frequent media contributor Stuart Gottlieb stresses the need for the Obama administration to reconsider where America now fits in a world that still needs it to provide strong leadership. Read the full article here.
Radio France Internationale, the most listened-to French-speaking radio around the world, broadcasted an interview with SIWPS member Séverine Autesserre on her new book, Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention. http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20140906-mme-autesserre-le-pays-paix-est-le-pays-expatries/.
SIWPS member Kimberly Marten has published an op-ed on the European Leadership Network assessing the difficulties that lie ahead in the Ukraine conflict. She has also been interviewed by PBS and published a blog post in the Huffington Post. http://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/no-easy-way-to-end-ukraines-bloodshed_1847.html http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/marten/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kimberly-marten/putins-whack-a-mole-game_b_5780602.html
