Strategy • Diplomacy • War
Whether trying to achieve political, security, economic, or humanitarian goals, scholars have found that regime-change missions do not succeed as envisioned. Instead, they are likely to spark civil wars, lead to lower levels of democracy, increase repression, and in the end, draw the foreign intervener into lengthy nation-building projects.
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THURSDAY, November 14, 2019 12:30-2:00pm Cabot 703 Prior to his assignment in Boston, Arnaud Mentré was Deputy Assistant Secretary for
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Karim Elkady
Nils Hagerdal
Megan McBride
Sidita Kushi
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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What happens to a country when its core national identity – its preferred image of itself in terms of race
Read moreA new research project aims to tally the bill of American military intervention and spotlight the need for a return
Read moreHigh 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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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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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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