Professor Kimberly Marten on Worldfocus
Professor Kimberly Marten appeared as a guest on WNET television’s Worldfocus program, discussing NATO’s relationship with Russia and Afghanistan. Click here to view this interview.
Professor Kimberly Marten appeared as a guest on WNET television’s Worldfocus program, discussing NATO’s relationship with Russia and Afghanistan. Click here to view this interview.
Professor Séverine Autesserre published an article entitled “Hobbes and the Congo: Frames, Local Violence, and International Intervention” in the April 2009 issue of International Organization.
In April, Professor Alexander Cooley published a book entitled Contracting States: Sovereign Transfers in International Relations (Princeton University Press). The book discusses military base agreements and other forms of shared sovereignty. It was co-authored by Hendrik Spruyt of Northwestern University. Click here for more information about Professor Cooley’s new book.
The Center for International Conflict Resolution launched a new program, entitled “Conversations with Alvaro de Soto,” a series that seeks to engage high level figures from the domains of international mediation, international politics and conflict resolution in public discussions on their experiences and lessons learned. Part I, entitled “Wounds of Peace: The Arab-Israeli Conflict after […]
Professor Jack Snyder (with Suzanne Katzenstein) published a piece entitled “Expediency of the Angels” in the March/April 2009 issue of the National Interest. The article explores a recent tendency within the U.S. public to “shy away from promoting [U.S.] values abroad” and calls on the United States to develop a more effective human rights policy […]
Professor Richard K. Betts published a piece entitled “The Three Faces of NATO” in the March/April 2009 issue of The National Interest. The article discusses the alliance’s “identity crisis,” arguing for serious reconsideration of NATO’s fundamental purpose in the wake of the Cold War. Click here to read this article.
Professors Lincoln Mitchell and Alexander Cooley published a piece entitled “No Way to Treat Our Friends: Recasting Recent U.S.-Georgian Relations” in the January 2009 issue of the The Washington Quarterly. The piece examines America’s flawed response to the 2008 conflict between Russia and Georgia. Click here to read the full text of the article.
Professors Page Fortna and Tanisha Fazal received a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to develop creative and informed policy recommendations for managing states at risk. They hope to reorient the study of civil wars to cast new light on the initiation, conduct, and termination of such conflicts. Their research will produce a […]
Professor Tanisha Fazal and Ryan Griffiths published an article, entitled “A State of One’s Own: The Rise of Secession Since World War II” in the Fall/Winter 2008 issue of the Brown Journal of World Affairs. The piece seeks to explain changes in the number of states in the international system, in the number of new states […]
In March, Professor Aldo Civico, director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution, participated in a conference entitled “Contemporary Counter-Terrorism and Counterinsurgency: The Colombian Experience.” Organized by the Ministry of Defense of the Colombian government in collaboration with the U.S. Southern Command and held in Colombia, the conference gathered a group of international experts to […]