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Former ISP/Women and Public Policy Program Research Fellow Megan Mackenzie (2008–2009) is the author of "Let Women Fight: Ending the U.S. Military's Female Combat Ban" in Foreign Affairs, November–December 2012.

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Former ISP Research Fellow Jennifer Keister (2009–2012) has had a new policy brief published by the United States Institute of Peace, "A Diplomatic Milestone for Mindanao?"

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Former ISP Research Fellow and Associate Erica Chenoweth (2006–2010) and Former ISP/Intrastate Conflict Program Research Fellow Maria J. Stephan (2003–2005) have won the 2013 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for their book, Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (Columbia University Press, 2011). 

Why Civil Resistance Works also won the 2012 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, which the American Political Science Association gives annually to the best book on government, politics, or international affairs published in the U.S. during the previous calendar year.

The Roles and Influence of the North Korean Military

The armed forces have always played a vital role for states as their guarantor of national security. In addition, the military has often been a political actor with varying degrees of power and influence over budgets, foreign and defense policy, or a full-blown military dictatorship. Some are also significant players in the state economy. This chapter provides an assessment of the North Korean military's role and influence in all three areas — security, politics, and economics — as the country undergoes its second leadership transition to its young leader, Kim Jong-un.

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Our Own Worst Enemy? Institutional Interests and the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Expertise Wins 2012 Louis Brownlow Book Award

Sharon's Weiner's, Our Own Worst Enemy? Institutional Interests and the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Expertise, which was published in 2011 in the Belfer Center Studies in International Security book series, has won the National Academy of Public Administration's 2012 Louis Brownlow Book Award.

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Zion's Dilemmas: How Israel Makes National Security Policy

In Zion's Dilemmas, a former deputy national security adviser to the State of Israel details the history and, in many cases, the chronic inadequacies in the making of Israeli national security policy. The author uses his insider understanding and substantial archival and interview research to describe how Israel has made strategic decisions and to present a first of its kind model of national security decision-making in Israel. The book concludes with cogent and timely recommendations for reform.

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The spring 2013 issue of the quarterly journal International Security is now available!

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