Conflict & Conflict Resolution

Morgan Kaplan writes that the decision to remove U.S. troops from northern Syria may drive Kurds further from America's political sphere, harm broader U.S. credibility in the region, and lead to a resurgence of the Islamic State.

In Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For, Susan E. Rice—National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations—reveals her surprising story with unflinching candor as she recalls pivotal moments from her dynamic career on the front lines of American diplomacy and foreign policy.

 

Stephen Walt summarizes his analysis of how impeachment proceedings will affect the foreign policy of Donald Trump: His administration's decisions will be erratic, ill-considered, and ineffective—in other words, business as usual.

The Atlantic published a chapter from Susan Rice's new book Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For. We include here an excerpt from The Atlantic. 

Speech given by Admiral Philip Davidson, Commander of the  U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, at the Future of Diplomacy Project's event on "China's Challenge to a Free and Open Indo-Pacific" at the Harvard Kennedy School 

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This article identifies the importance of NATO’s role as a facilitator of multinational collaboration. The Alliance’s established processes and standards worked well, enabling countries whose available resources might otherwise prohibit their participation to fully-contribute to the mission in Afghanistan.

Nicholas Burns, former US Ambassador to NATO and Greece, says American foreign policy has been "turned on its head" this week. How could national security be impacted by an impeachment inquiry of President Trump?

A new book edited by Erica Chenoweth, Deborah Avant, Marie Berry, Rachel Epstein, Cullen Hendrix, Oliver Kaplan, and Timothy Sisk, Civil Action and the Dynamics of Violence, looks at recent conflicts in Syria, Peru, Kenya, Northern Ireland, Mexico, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Spain, and Colombia to explore the role that civil action played.