by Posted by AD Brown | Dec 9, 2011 | Monitor
Afghanistan Spencer Ackerman is worried by the proposed outsourcing of U.S security operations on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Counterinsurgency Andrew Exum believes that counterinsurgency will continue to remain important. Egypt The Arabist looks at the dispute...
by Posted by AD Brown | Dec 2, 2011 | Monitor
Afghanistan Andrew Exum suggests that the United States will need to keep troops in Afghanistan beyond 2014. Counter-insurgency Paul Miller argues that the United States should have supported Pakistani attempts to reassert civilian control of the military. Democracy...
by Posted by AD Brown | Nov 26, 2011 | Monitor
Afghanistan Andrew Exum believes that demands for greater power for Afghan forces is good for America’s negotiating position. Freelance consult Jay Ulfelder looks at what anthropologists think about Afghanistan. Counter-insurgency Arda Bilgen compares Mao and David...
by Posted by AD Brown | Nov 18, 2011 | Monitor
Iran J.J. Hodari argues for action against Iran. Andrew Sullivan is pessimistic about the prospects for stopping Iran getting a nuclear weapon. Foreign Policy looks at China’s negative role in the Middle East. Mehdi Hassan argues that Iran’s desire for …...
by Posted by AD Brown | Nov 17, 2011 | Monitor
Manuel Almeida is in LSE’s Department of International Relations. Here he reviews the latest book from LSE’s Professor Fawaz Gerges entitled The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda, published by the Oxford University Press. On the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 …...
