This is one of the many evacuee villages built inland back of Singapore, for emergency occupancy by Malays living near the coast. This picture was taken in the summer of 1941.
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The Truth about Hearts and Minds:
Counterinsurgency and Development in the Postwar British Empire
A Brown Bag Seminar with Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy Erik Linstrum on Thursday, May 31, 2012, at 12:15 PM in the Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369.
Coffee and tea provided.
FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
May 2012
"Perceptions and Narratives of Security: The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps and the Iran-Iraq War"
By Annie Tracy Samuel, Research Fellow, International Security Program
This paper explores the importance of the Iran-Iraq War for the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) by analyzing how the Guards have used the war to present their positions on Iran's national security.
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May 17, 2012
"Urging Women to Be All That You Can't Be"
Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"For Democrats, advocating for women's equal rights in the military is less complicated than contending with the reproductive and health issues that have drawn most of the gender focus this election season. Since most Americans have no interaction with the military, which constitutes less than 1 percent of the population, the issue is largely theoretical and therefore much safer for politicians. Few Americans actually know a woman who wants to be in combat; by saying that such women should be allowed to follow their dreams, Obama isn't alienating anyone except those who still claim that women aren't up to the job."
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May 15, 2012
"Sarko: Nothing Became Him Like the Manner of His Leaving"
The Huffington Post
By Charles G. Cogan, Associate, International Security Program
"On May 8th, Sarkozy invited Hollande to be at his side at the lighting of the eternal flame at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Place d'Etoile in Paris, in commemoration of V-E Day. It was an interlude of correctness, if not unity, in the eternal struggle in France between the Left and the Right."
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May 15, 2012
"Judge the U.S. Candidates by Their Self-mastery and Openness"
Daily Star
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
"But the most important variable for voters to examine is the candidate's biography. I do not mean the slick books and television advertisements that are produced for their campaigns. While image consultants and acting ability can mask a candidate's character, an integrated life over time is the best basis to judge the authenticity of the next president's temperament and how he will govern."
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May 2, 2012
"Dealing with a Chinese Monroe Doctrine"
New York Times
By Stephen M. Walt, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs; Faculty Chair, International Security Program
"...[W]ar between China and America is far from inevitable. Both countries have nuclear weapons and both governments understand that a war would be catastrophic. If future leaders are prudent, the rivalry may be managed and peace preserved. But if inexperienced, reckless or over-confident leaders come to power on either side, the danger of war will rise. Unfortunately, recent history warns that the likelihood both countries will always have wise leaders is not high."
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May 2, 2012
"Merkel Can Achieve Fiscal Union in Europe"
Financial Times
By Niall Ferguson, Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Pierpaolo Barbieri, Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy, International Security Program
"Europe's monetary union is neither the joint checking account of a dysfunctional family nor a latter-day gold standard. It was always meant to be a staging post on the road to a federal Europe. Today the biggest threat to its survival is no longer the economic consequences of austerity; it is the political consequences, in the form of populist, anti-European, usually xenophobic fringe parties. Almost everywhere but Germany, such parties are gaining support."
October 2011
Our Own Worst Enemy? Institutional Interests and the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Expertise
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, many observers feared that terrorists and rogue states would obtain weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or knowledge about how to build them from the vast Soviet nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons complex. The United States launched a major effort to prevent former Soviet WMD experts, suddenly without salaries, from peddling their secrets. In Our Own Worst Enemy, Sharon Weiner chronicles the design, implementation, and evolution of four U.S. programs that were central to this nonproliferation policy and assesses their successes and failures.
September 2010
Laws, Outlaws, and Terrorists: Lessons from the War on Terrorism
By Gabriella Blum and Philip B. Heymann
Gabriella Blum and Philip Heymann reject the argument that traditional American values embodied in domestic and international law can be ignored in any sustainable effort to keep the United States safe from terrorism. In Laws, Outlaws, and Terrorists, they demonstrate that the costs are great and the benefits slight from separating security and the rule of law.
Winner of the 2010 Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize
