JOURNAL ARTICLES
Spring 2005
"Correspondence: Selling the Market Short? The Marketplace of Ideas and the Iraq War"
International Security, issue 4, volume 29
By Ronald Krebs, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2001-2002 and Chaim Kaufmann
Ronald Krebs and Chaim Kaufmann offer competing explanations for the role of the marketplace of ideas in the lead-up to the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraqin March 2003 and remove Saddam Hussein from power.
February 21, 2005
"Turkey's Concerns About the State-Building Efforts in Iraq"
Iranian Journal of International Affairs
By Mustafa Kibaroglu, Former Joint Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program and International Security Program, 2004–2005
February / March 2005
"In the National Interest: A New Grand Strategy for American Foreign Policy"
Boston Review, issue 1, volume 30
By Stephen M. Walt, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs; Faculty Chair, International Security Program
"...how can the United States maximize the benefits that primacy brings and minimize the resistance that its power sometimes provokes?"
Summer 2004
"Occupational Hazards: Why Military Occupations Succeed or Fail"
International Security, issue 1, volume 29
By David Edelstein, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2000-2002
Why do some occupations succeed and others fail? An examination of twenty-four occupations since the Napoleonic Wars yields two main and perhaps paradoxical findings: occupations are generally likely to succeed only if they are lengthy; extended occupations, however, are likely to produce nationalist reactions that can stymie an occupation’s chances of success.
January/February 2004
How to Stop Nuclear Terror
Foreign Affairs, issue no. 1, volume vol. 83
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
President Bush has called nuclear terror the defining threat the United States now faces. He's right, but he has yet to follow up his words with actions. This is especially frustrating since nuclear terror is preventable. Washington needs a strategy based on the "Three No's": no loose nukes, no nascent nukes, and no new nuclear states.
Summer 2003
"Constructing a Democratic Iraq: Challenges and Opportunities"
International Security, issue 1, volume 28
By Daniel Byman, Editorial Board Member, Quarterly Journal: International Security
Daniel Byman tackles the increasingly salient issue of establishing democracy in Iraq following the U.S. ouster of Saddam Hussein. Byman explores some of the daunting challenges ahead, among them: creating the conditions necessary for the transition from dictatorship to democracy, addressing the deep divisions among Iraq's various ethnic and religious communities, and preventing countries such as Iran and Turkey from meddling in Iraq's internal affairs.
Fall 2001
"The Myth of Air Power in the Persian Gulf War and the Future of Warfare"
International Security, issue 2, volume 26
By Daryl Press
Using detailed evidence from the four-day ground campaign, the author concludes that air power was "neither sufficient nor necessary" in defeating Iraq and that "its role has been exaggerated and misunderstood."
Winter 2001/02
"Beyond bin Laden: Reshaping U.S. Foreign Policy"
International Security, issue 3, volume 26
By Stephen M. Walt, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs; Faculty Chair, International Security Program
"The terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon triggered the most rapid and dramatic change in the history of U.S. foreign policy."
2006
The Other Students: Teaching the "War on Terror" to Nonlawyers
Journal of Legal Education, issue 1&2, volume 55
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
Teaching the "war on terror."
May 2013
"Understanding Revolution in the Middle East: The Central Role of the Middle Class"
Middle East Development Journal, volume 5
By Ishac Diwan, Lecturer in Public Policy, Middle East Initiative
This paper presents the outlines of a coherent, structural, long term account of the socioeconomic and political evolution of the Arab republics that can explain both the persistence of autocracy until 2011, and the its eventual collapse, in a way that is empirically verifable. The changing interests of the middle class would have to be a central aspect of a coherent story, on accounts of both distributional and modernization considerations, and that the ongoing transformation can be best understood in terms of their defection from the autocratic order to a new democratic order, which is still in formation.
