WHAT'S NEW

The International Security Program welcomes its new and returning research fellows and associates.

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Megan Mackenzie, Former ISP/Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) Research Fellow, 2008–2009, contributed an article—"Securitization and Desecuritization: Female Soldiers and the Reconstruction of Women in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone"— to the recent special issue of Security Studies on Feminist Contributions.

Former ISP/WAPPP Research Fellow Laura Sjoberg, 2005–2006, served as the editor of the special issue and wrote the introduction.

The Globalization of Martyrdom: Al Qaeda, Salafi Jihad, and the Diffusion of Suicide Attacks

This groundbreaking volume examines the rise and spread of suicide attacks over the past decade. Sorting through 1,270 terror strikes between 1981 and 2007, Assaf Moghadam attributes their recent proliferation to the mutually related ascendance of al Qaeda and its guiding ideology, Salafi Jihad, an extreme interpretation of Islam that rejects national boundaries and seeks to create a global Muslim community. This unflinching analysis provides new information about the relationship between ideology and suicide attacks and recommends policies focused on containing Salafi Jihadism.

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Neophytos Loizides, ISP/Intrastate Conflict Program Research Fellow (2003–2005), is a Lecturer at Queens University Belfast, School of Politics, International Studies, and Philosophy.

Visit his webpage to learn about his research on negotiations and conflict resolution and download his publications.

Securing the Bomb 2008

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Project on Managing the Atom Co-Principal Investigator Matthew Bunn provides a comprehensive assessment of efforts to secure and remove vulnerable nuclear stockpiles around the world, and a detailed action plan for reducing the risk of nuclear terrorism. Securing the Bomb 2008 was commissioned by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI). The full report, with additional information on the threat of nuclear terrorism, is available on the NTI website.

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"Legalizing Nuclear Abandonment: The Determinants of Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty Ratification" by ISP/MTA Fellow Matthew Fuhrmann

"U.S. Primacy, Eurasia's New Strategic Landscape, and the Emerging Asian Order" by ISP Associate Alexander Vuving

The Summer 2009 issue of the quarterly journal International Security is now available. It includes articles by Matthew Fuhrmann, Elizabeth Stanley, Daniel Lake, Christopher Layne, and more.

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Human Rights and Wrongs: Slavery, Terror, Genocide

Human Rights and Wrongs explains the persistence of crimes against humanity since the Holocaust...

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