Trump’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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CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES
Research and Policy Seminar: Polina Beliakova
MONDAY, November 5, 2018
5:30-7:00pm, 703 Cabot
Polina Beliakova, PhD Senior Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Studies
Civilian Control in Intrastate Wars:
Evidence from Democratic and Democratizing Regimes
Discussant: Sidita Kushi, Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Studies
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Tuesday, October 23, 2018
5:30-7:00pm
Cabot 703
Marion Smith is a civil society leader and expert in international affairs, and has been executive director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation since March 2014. As Executive Director, he provides strategic leadership for VOC and spearheads its educational initiatives. He is also founding president of the Common Sense Society, an international foundation that promotes civic engagement, entrepreneurship, and leadership virtues among young professionals in the United States and Europe.
Professor Monica Toft at the Asian Forum for Global Governance
At the Asian Forum for Global Governance, Professor Monica Toft addressed the ways in which the rise of Islamist violence and terrorism is related to the global resurgence of religion, and that to both understand and combat it we need a more nuanced understanding for why and how religion becomes part of the political arena.
Read moreApproaching the World Strategically — Monica Duffy Toft brings an expertise in international politics to a new Fletcher center
“Our national goal should be leading the world toward a future where all peoples have a say in their government, enjoy the prospect of a fair standard of living, are subject to and privileged by due process of law, are secure from deliberate violence, and can benefit from these things, sustainably,” said Professor Monica Toft.
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