On September 19, SIWPS Member Austin Long joined his colleagues Ben Connable and Jonah Blank to co-author a piece for CNN’s Global Public Square. The piece, “A smarter way to stop Syria WMD attacks,” discusses possible alterations to the Authorization for the Use of Military Force currently before Congress, and how it can still be […]
On September 17, 2013, members of the UC Berkeley community gathered to honor the memory of those who passed away in the past year. This included SIWPS Member Kenneth Waltz, who we lost this past May. Professor Waltz’s name is mentioned near the 10:00 minute mark of the video, which can be viewed here.
On September 17, SIWPS Member Page Fortna spoke on KCRW, an affiliate of NPR, on their show To the Point. Professor Fortna was a member of a debate on whether U.S.-Russian diplomacy was, in fact, lengthening the Syrian Civil War. The abstract of the panel was as follows: “When the US was threatening force against […]
SIWPS Member Austin Long has been in the media a lot recently, talking Syria, Russia, chemical weapons, and Al-Qaeda. On Wednesday, September 11, Professor Long was on Monocle 24, an internet-based radio service out of London, giving the Russian perspective on the Syrian chemical weapons negotiations. His interview can be heard in full here, starting […]
On September 9, SIWPS Member Kimberly Marten appeared on Al Jazeera America discussing the recent proposal from Russia to disarm Syria of their chemical weapons. In a segment called “Putin’s Syria offer ‘a brilliant move,’” Marten believes that this new proposal could potentially be a win for all sides, and a way to avert a […]
On September 5, SIWPS Director Richard Betts appeared on ForeignAffairs.com with a piece, “Pick Your Poison: America Has Many Options in Syria, None are Good.” The article discusses six different options available to the President regarding the current crisis in Syria, and lays out the pros and cons of each. The article can be read […]
On August 1st, SIWPS Associate Director Jean-Marie Guéhenno appeared in The International Herald Tribune with an op-ed titled “The Fragmenting Middle East.” In it, Professor Guéhenno writes that the military coup in Egypt was both bad for both democracy and regional stability, and that the West is wrong to forgo the idea of soft power in return […]
The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies has released their Spring/Summer 2013 Newsletter. The document includes all the events and news articles relating to SIWPS and its members since January, including talks from Fmr. Ambassador Thomas Pickering and Admiral William McRaven, Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command. The newsletter can be read in […]
Asia Policy, a publication of The National Bureau of Asian Research, has published a roundtable review discussion of Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia (Oxford University Press, 2012), the newest work from Professor Alexander Cooley, Chair and Professor of Political Science at Barnard College and Member, SIWPS. The roundtable features […]
The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies has released two new working papers from SIWPS Affiliate Professor Roy Licklider, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University. The two papers are: “Merging Competing Militaries After Civil Wars” (Saltzman Working Paper No. 20) and “South Africa” (Saltzman Working Paper No. 21). Both can be read […]
