Middle East Misconceptions That Are Messing Up US Foreign Policy
By Barbara F. Walter Violence in the Middle East has a way of tapping into one-dimensional reactions from…
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Mythbusting the Burden Sharing Problem
By Steve Saideman Yes, NATO countries do not spend equally on defense. NATO countries varied quite significantly in…
Micro-Management in Defense: Bane or Boon
By Steve Saideman In the past week I have watched the Errol Morris documentary on Donald Rumsfeld (The…
Puzzling Patterns in Election Participation
By Barbara F. Walter Last Saturday, Afghanistan held its first presidential election since 2009. A surprisingly large number…
Learning from Afghanistan: Multilateralism is Hard
By Steve Saideman The old saying is that success has a thousand fathers but that failure is an orphan.…
Germany and NATO Reform? Please
By Steve Saideman Germany gets far more grief than it should for under-performing in Afghanistan. Italy, Hungary, Turkey…
More Challenges to Women’s Representation in Afghanistan
By Sarah Bush Bad news about women’s rights in Afghanistan — as if we needed any more of…
The Attack on the ICRC and the Changing Conflict in Afghanistan
By Jason Lyall On 29 May, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)’s compound in Jalalabad, Afghanistan,…
NATO and Churchill Yet Again
By Steve Saideman Almost since the alliance was created, there have been worries about the inefficiency and potential…
Army Training, Suh!
By Steve Saideman NATO operations in Afghanistan are a complex exercise in cooperation and shared responsibility. Members of the ISAF not only…