Professor Robert Jervis published an article entitled “Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying,” a review of John Mueller’s book, Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al Qaeda, in the November/December 2009 issue of the National Interest. Click here to read Professor Jervis’s book review in the National Interest.
Institute Affiliate Roy Licklider completed a working paper, entitled “Civil War Outcomes.” This paper is No. 11 in the Saltzman Working Paper Series. Click here read this working paper.
Professor Kimberly Marten completed a working paper, entitled “Warlords, Sovereignty, and State Failure; Chapter Three: Lessons from Post-Soviet Georgia.” This paper is No. 12 in the Saltzman Working Paper Series.
Professor Lincoln Mitchell spoke to Time Magazine about Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s leadership style, referring to the leader’s energetic approach as “government by adrenaline.” Click here to read this article.
Professor Austin Long delivered a lecture entitled “Complacency Kills: Observations from the Field on Counterinsurgency and the Future of Iraq” at a Washington D.C. event sponsored by the SIPA Alumni Relations Office. Click here to view the event.
Professor Lincoln Mitchell was quoted in an article entitled “Georgia Sees Vindication in War Report; Saakashvili Touts One Finding, but His Opponents Use Inquiry to Step Up Criticism” in the Washington Post.
Professor Alexander Cooley published an article entitled “Behind the Central Asian Curtain: The Limits of Russia’s Resurgence” in the October 2009 issue of Current History.
Stephanie Neuman published an article entitled “Power, Influence and Hierarchy: Defense Industries in a Unipolar World” in Richard Bitzinger’s edited volume, The Modern Defense Industry: Political, Economic, and Technological Issues (ABC-CLIO Press, 2009).
Austin Long published a review, entitled “The Hegemon’s Dilemma,” of David Kilcullen’s book, The Accidental Guerilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One, in the Fall/Winter 2009 issue of Columbia University’s Journal of International Affairs.
Professors Alexander Cooley and Lincoln Mitchell are collaborating on a new Columbia University initiative, funded by the Smith Richardson Foundation, entitled “U.S. Policy Toward Georgia After the War.”
