9/11 Didn’t Change Us—Our Response to It Did
By Joe Young My phone rang just before 9 a.m. on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.…
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Why the “Terrorist” Label Helps Some Groups and Hurts Others
Guest post by Rebecca Best Does adding a terrorist group to the US State Department’s Foreign Terrorist Organization…
The End of the War on Terror
By Navin Bapat On August 15, 2021, almost twenty years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Taliban recaptured…
Why Statebuilding Didn’t Work in Afghanistan
Guest post by David Lake The collapse of the Afghan government illustrates the larger dilemma in all statebuilding…
Has ISIS Made Gains as a Result of the Pandemic?
By Dawn Brancati and guest contributors Jóhanna Birnir and Qutaiba Idlbi Prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19…
Should UN Peacekeepers Help Regulate Conflict Minerals?
IGCC Dissertation Fellow Series Guest post by Patrick Hunnicutt In September 2020, a Mai-Mai militia attempted to seize…
Biden’s Afghanistan Decision
Guest post by Asfandyar Mir President Biden has inherited America’s longest war—the war in Afghanistan—at a critical moment.…
You Can’t Get There from Here: Biden Negotiating the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
By Peter Krause In his first month in office, President Joe Biden made a number of foreign policy…
An Insurrection and a New President Make the US Vulnerable to Foreign Policy Crises
By Emily Hencken Ritter and guest contributor Brett V. Benson On January 6, dissidents violently stormed the US…
Is Climate Change Driving Global Conflict?
Guest post by Nina von Uexkull and Halvard Buhaug While former US President Donald Trump frequently denied man-made…