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  • Insecurity and Ambition

    Understanding Pakistan's Strategic Debates

    by Christopher Clary, Sameer Lalwani, Elizabeth Threlkeld, Ike Barrash, Hannah Haegeland, Eyal Hanfling, Rashid Munir, Yunas Samad, Beenish Pervaiz0, Muhammad Omar Afzaal1, Asfandyar Mir2, Farhan Hanif Siddiqi3, Ahsan I. Butt4 ...
    Series series South Asia in World Affairs series
    Fresh insights from a unique new data set inform understanding of Pakistan's strategic thinkingIs Pakistan an aggressive, revisionist state—or a deeply insecure one whose choices reflect anxiety as much as ambition? Outside observers and many scholars have assumed the former, attributing Pakistan's behavior to a strategic culture defined by hostility and risk acceptance. But this conclusion has ... Read more

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    What We're Getting Wrong About War

    by Christopher D. Kolenda ...
    The military expert and author of Leadership presents "the most thoughtful analysis yet of America's recent conflicts—and future challenges" (Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal).Why have the major post-9/11 US military interventions turned into quagmires? Despite huge power imbalances in America's favor, capacity-building efforts, and tactical victories, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq turned intractable ... Read more

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  • Fighting to the End

    The Pakistan Army's Way of War

    by C. Christine Fair ...
    Since Pakistan was founded in 1947, its army has dominated the state. The military establishment has locked the country in an enduring rivalry with India, with the primary aim of wresting Kashmir from it. To that end, Pakistan initiated three wars over Kashmir-in 1947, 1965, and 1999-and failed to win any of them. Today, the army continues to prosecute this dangerous policy by employing non-state ... Read more

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  • The Warrior State

    Pakistan in the Contemporary World

    by T.V. Paul ...
    Seemingly from its birth, Pakistan has teetered on the brink of becoming a failed state. Today, it ranks 133rd out of 148 countries in global competitiveness. Its economy is as dysfunctional as its political system is corrupt; both rely heavily on international aid for their existence. Taliban forces occupy 30 percent of the country. It possesses over a hundred nuclear weapons that could easily ... Read more

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    This monograph develops an alternative approach to counterinsurgency, and explains how the current narratives in the field of counterinsurgency are not completely accurate. Counterinsurgents only need to properly understand the environment and then concentrate their efforts in that critical area of the insurgency identified as the sustainer of that insurgency. The U.S. counterinsurgency (COIN) ... Read more

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  • The Future of ISIS

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    Looking to the future in confronting the Islamic StateThe Islamic State (best known in the West as ISIS or ISIL) has been active for less than a decade, but it has already been the subject of numerous histories and academic studies-all focus primarily on the past. The Future of ISIS is the first major study to look ahead: what are the prospects for the Islamic State in the near term, and what can ... Read more

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  • Containing and Deterring a Nuclear Iran

    by American Enterprise Institute Foreign and Defense Policy Studies ...
    It has long been the policy of the US government that a nuclear-armed Iran would be unacceptable. Yet, whether the conventional and nontraditional means of US and Western policy can secure the end of keeping Tehran from fulfilling its longtime nuclear ambition is far from clear. While it is possible military action will deprive Iran of its nuclear option, that the current regime in the Islamic ... Read more

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    An exploration of gender, the Arab Spring, and women's experiences of revolution, including firsthand accounts.In Women of the Midan, Sherine Hafez demonstrates how women were a central part of revolutionary process of the Arab Spring. Women not only protested in the streets of Cairo, they demanded democracy, social justice, and renegotiation of a variety of sociocultural structures. Women's ... Read more

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    Experiences of Palestinian Exile

    by Diana Allan ...
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    Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their "right of return." Exile has come to seem a kind of historical amber, preserving refugees in a way of life that ended abruptly with "the catastrophe" of 1948 and their camps—inhabited now for four ... Read more

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  • Squandered Opportunity

    Neoclassical Realism and Iranian Foreign Policy

    by Thomas Juneau ...
    The Islamic Republic of Iran faced a favorable strategic environment following the US invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003. Its leadership attempted to exploit this window of opportunity by assertively seeking to expand Iran's interests throughout the Middle East. It fell far short, however, of fulfilling its long-standing ambition of becoming the dominant power in the Persian Gulf ... Read more

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