BALKANS
2007
Understanding Victory and Defeat in Contemporary War
Book
By Jan Angstrom and Isabelle Duyvesteyn
Bringing together leading contributors in the field, this volume analyses how victory and defeat in modern war can be understood and explained.
2007
"How to Lose a War on Terror: A Comparative Analysis of a Counterinsurgency Success and Failure"
Book Chapter
By Ivan Arreguin-Toft, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2002-2009
"If it is true that every strategy has an ideal counterstrategy, then understanding how to counter terrorism demands some understanding of terrorism as a strategy."
February 2007
"Narrative Boundaries and the Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict and Conciliation"
Journal Article, Poetics, issue 1, volume 35
By Tammy A. Smith, Former Joint Research Fellow, International Security Program and the Women and Public Policy Program, 2006-2007
Fiercely competing identity narratives provide the foundation for what often appear to be intractable ethnic conflicts.
December 2006
"Gendered Realities of the Immunity Principle: Why Gender Analysis Needs Feminism"
Journal Article, International Studies Quarterly, issue 4, volume 50
By Laura E. Sjoberg, Former Joint Research Fellow, International Security Program and the Women and Public Policy Program, 2005–2006
The discipline of international relations has had different reactions to the increased salience of gender advocacy in international politics; some have reacted by asking feminist questions about IR, while others have encouraged the study of gender as a variable disengaged from feminist advocacy. This article takes up this debate simultaneously with current debate on gender and the noncombatant immunity principle.
November 6, 2006
Ashton Carter appointed to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s International Security Advisory Board
Press Release
At a November 6, 2006 swearing-in at the State Department, Preventive Defense Project Co-Director and Kennedy School of Government professor Ashton B. Carter became a member of Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s International Security Advisory Board (ISAB) which is charged with providing advice on a wide range of issues affecting national security.
November 2006
"The Inadvertent Effects of Democracy on Terrorist Group Emergence"
Discussion Paper
By Erica Chenoweth, Associate, International Security Program
Why are terrorist groups prevalent in democracies?
October 4, 2006
Third-Party Intervention and Escalation in Kosovo: Does Moral Hazard Explain It?
Book Chapter
By Arman Grigorian, Former Research Fellow, Intrastate Conflict Program/International Security Program, 2002-2004
October 4, 2006
Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion and Civil War
Book
By Alan Kuperman, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2000–2001 and Timothy Crawford, Former Associate, International Security Program, 2006-2009
September 6, 2006
"Strategic and Military Planning under the Fog of Peace"
Book Chapter
By Monica Duffy Toft, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Talbot C. Imlay
"...in their scope and diversity, the cases provide an excellent overview of the challenges confronting military planners over the last two hundred years."
September 6, 2006
"Conclusion: Seven Lessons Learned from the Fog of Peace"
Book Chapter
By Talbot C. Imlay and Monica Duffy Toft, Associate Professor of Public Policy
"...the fog of peace can never be entirely pierced. Flexibility and constant cultivation of the ability to question received wisdom and to reconsider assumptions are the best security against catastrophic failure in a future war, regardless of whether that war resembles a more traditional interstate war or the current war on terror."
