ENGAGING PRACTITIONERS: COFFEE with AMBASSADOR MITCHELL
Thursday, October 24, 2019 4:00-5:30pm Murrow Room Derek Mitchell is the third president of the National Democratic Institute. Mitchell has had a distinguished career
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MIP Conference 4-5 October 2019
Register Now Find the Conference Details and Two-days Agenda here!
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Monica Toft’s “Identicide: How Demographic Shifts Can Rip a Country Apart” on PRI
What happens to a country when its core national identity – its preferred image of itself in terms of race
Read MoreDrone Diplomacy: America’s Intervention Problem
A new research project aims to tally the bill of American military intervention and spotlight the need for a return
Read MoreTrump’s Military Threats Aren’t Going to Keep “America First”
High defense costs are one of the surest ways to hasten a great power’s decline. By DAVID KAMPF May 30, 2019
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DIPLOMACY BY FORCE. U.S. special forces are taking the place of ambassadors. That’s a problem. Monica Toft in Tufts Magazine
A STRONG LEGACY OF U.S. LEADERSHIP AND ENGAGEMENT IN GLOBAL POLITICS has been reduced today to what I call kinetic diplomacy—diplomacy by armed force.
As of March 2018, the Trump administration had appointed only 70 of 188 U.S. ambassadors. Meanwhile, it increased the deployment of special operations forces to 149 countries, up from 138 in 2016 during the Obama administration (the use of military force also expanded under Obama). By October, after a concerted effort by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, 127 ambassadors had been appointed. Still, ambassadors are operating in just two-thirds of the world’s capitals, while special operations forces are active in three-fourths of them.
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CSS Research & Policy Seminar: Peter Andreas
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
5:30-7:00pm, Murrow Room
DRUGS AND WAR: WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP?
Peter Andreas is the John Hay Professor of International Studies at Brown University. Previously, Andreas was an academy scholar at Harvard University, a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and an SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Fellow on International Peace and Security.
Discussant: Polina Beliakova, PhD Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Studies
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CSS Research and Policy Seminar Spring 2019
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MONDAY, December 10, 2018
5:30-7:00pm, 703 Cabot
Xiaodon Liang, PhD Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Studies
The Politics of Arms Production in Industrialized States
Discussant: Meg Guliford, PhD Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Studies
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ENGAGING PRACTITIONERS: LUNCH WITH PHILLIP SMYTH
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES
in Partnership with
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES PROGRAM &
FARES CENTER
Hosted by Fletcher Countering Violent Extremism Working Group
“The Middle East’s Shia Militias: Militancy, Iran, and What These Groups Mean for the Region”
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