International Security

Highlights from the Winter 2022/23 issue of the journal International Security.

Peter Ajak is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Belfer Center’s International Security Program. A South Sudanese peace activist, a scholar, former political prisoner, and a former child soldier and Lost Boy of Sudan, Ajak’s life has been consumed with the commitment to bring freedom to his people.

Highlights from the Fall 2022 issue of the journal International Security.

Nathaniel L. Moir argues that the Russian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 evokes a failure to learn the many lessons Bernard Fall sought to convey in critiquing American operations in Vietnam in the 1960s and as France sought to control Indochina in the 1950s. Among his contributions was Fall's demand that policy-makers recognize the primacy of political legitimacy over military force. 

Highlights from the Winter 2021/22 issue of International Security. 

Highlights from the Fall 2021 issue of International Security. 

In our feature Q&A, Professors Zoe Marks and Charli Carpenter tell us how the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is impacting Afghan women and how global advocacy groups and others can be most helpful to women in conflict areas. 

Highlights from the Spring 2021 issue of the journal International Security. 

Highlights from the Fall 2020 issue of the journal International Security. 

We asked Fredrik Logevall, author of JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century (Random House, 2020), why he decided to write a biography of John F. Kennedy, what surprised him in his research, and whether he thinks Kennedy would have won the 2020 presidential election.