The twenty-second Summer Workshop on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS) will be held July 2018. Students selected for the program will receive specialized instruction from experienced specialists from academic, political and military backgrounds. Twenty-two students will be selected to participate in the upcoming session. An application for the program will be available […]
The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies is the Institutional Affiliate for the International Security Policy (ISP) Concentration in the School of International and Public Affairs’ Master’s degree program in International Affairs. Concentrators participate in Institute seminars and other activities under the supervision of Professor Richard Betts. The ISP Concentration is designed […]
The Saltzman Working Paper Series feature drafts of research or essays in progress that feature research performed by scholars affiliated with the Institute. The authors welcome comments that might contribute to revision of the papers before publication. As works in progress, the papers should be cited only with the permission of the author. Analysis, arguments, […]
SIWPS Member Stuart Gottlieb argues in The Daily Beast today that the Obama administration left the central government in Iraq vulnerable to insurgent attacks by withdrawing U.S troops from the country. Read the full article here.
SIWPS Member Alexander Cooley addresses the local, regional and global dimensions of the controversy over the U.S. basing presence in Okinawa in an article today for The National Interest. The article is available here.
SIWPS Member Séverine Autesserre talks about the politics and culture of international intervention in a post today for the Washington Post. Read the post here. Professor Autesserre’s book Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential. Based on […]
SIWPS Member Austin Long talked to the public radio program Marketplace about how the insurgent group ISIS brings in income in Iraq and Syria to fund its operations and recruit new members. The interview was broadcast on Friday, June 13th. Listen to it on the Marketplace website.
SIWPS Member Séverine Autesserre suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential in her new book Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention. Based on several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones around the world, it demonstrates that everyday elements – such as […]
On June 6, 2014, Camille Francois and Shawn Lonergan, scholars at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, participated in the 70th Anniversary of D-Day events in France. They were selected to support a panel addressing the security and privacy implications of cyberspace during the Freedom and Solidarity Forum. The panel consisted of the […]
On June 6 Institute member Stuart Gottlieb had his letter on the Bergdahl case published in the NY Times. To read the letter, click here.
