Stephen Watts
Former Research Fellow and Associate, Intrastate Conflict Program/International Security Program, 2006-2007
Experience
Former Research Fellow and Associate, Intrastate Conflict Program/International Security Program, 2006-2007
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Int'l Relations and Comparative Politics, Dept. of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
April 2007
"Military Interventions and the 'Lessons of Iraq'"
Journal Article, PS: Political Science and Politics, issue 2, volume XL
By Stephen Watts, Former Research Fellow and Associate, Intrastate Conflict Program/International Security Program, 2006-2007
"The disastrous invasion of Iraq has shed a stark light on the
limitations of military interventions. Much of the ensuing
skepticism is quite healthy. But there is a risk that 'the lessons
of Iraq' will be learnt to the exclusion of lessons that can be
drawn from the more than two dozen other interventions of the
post-Cold War era...."
