Month: September 2009

Omnivore 28/09/09 – Terrorism Studies Supplement

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Why We Can’t Leave, Bruce Hoffman, The National Interest

Getting Our Facts Right… Leah Farrall, All Things Counterterrorism

Professor Hoffman’s Response, Leah Farrall, All Things Counterterrorism

My Initial Response to Professor Hoffman, Leah Farrall, All Things Counterterrorism

Devils in the Details – Response to Professor Hoffman, Leah Farrall, All Things Counterterrorism

Devils in the Details 2, Leah Farrall, All Things Counterterrorism

Devils in the Details 3, Leah Farrall, All Things Counterterrorism

Devils in the Details 4, Leah Farrall, All Things Counterterrorism

Devils in the Details – Final, Leah Farrall, All Things Counterterrorism

Rethinking Our Terrorist Fears, Scott Shane, New York Times

Sageman’s Comments to the NYT About the Zazi Case, Leah Farrall, All Things Counterterrorism

Omnivore 28/09/09

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The Taliban in Their Own Words, Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau, Newsweek

What Shapes Sanctions, David Makovsky, The New Republic

A Just Withdrawal, Michael Walzer and Nicolaus Mills, The New Republic

The Last Days of the Polymath, Edward Carr, Intelligent Life

Lead Poisoning Found in 121 Children in China, AP/New York Times

NATO and Mauritania Resume Full Cooperation, NATO Newsroom

Modelling and Simulation Used to Enhance NATO, Carla Burdt, Allied Command Transformation

Is Hollywood Finally TakingVirtual Worlds Seriously? Max Burns, Pixels and Polixy

The L.A. Times Contemplates America’s Avatar Addiction, Max Burns, Pixels and Policy

What if Author Bios Were Brutally Honest? Daniel Drezner, Foreign Policy

Omnivore 25/09/09

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UK Strategy & Defence Policy: Have Your Say, David Betz, Kings of War

The Army Wants Your Comments, Robert Haddick, Small Wars Journal

A Real Plot and Real CT, Bernard Finel, BernardFinel.com

Crossfire Forces Wardak Farmers Off Land, Habiburahman Ibrahimi, Afghan Recovery Report/IWPR

Yet Another “Bribe The Tribes” Pundit, Joshua Foust, Registan.net

Storm Warnings on the Petraeus-ometer, Thomas Ricks, Best Defense/Foreign Policy

Legitimacy and the Afghan Army, Steve Coll, Think Tank/The New Yorker

White House Seeks To Avoid Another Vietnam, Tim Reid, The Times

Masters of Chaos Thrive on Bombs and Charity, James Hider, The Times

The Front Line in Somalia, Jeffrey Gettleman, At War/New York Times

Duncan McCargo Receives Book Award

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I was delighted to read that Duncan McCargo has received a prestigious Asia Society award – with a nice cash sum attached – for his book Tearing the Land Apart: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand (Cornell University Press, 2008). Duncan’s a colleague in the School of Politics and International Studies at Leeds; his approach to the sort of field work he did for the book was cited in, among other places, David Kilcullen’  The Accidental Guerrilla, as a model of “conflict ethnography”. Well done, Duncan.

Omnivore 24/09/09

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Tie Troops To Progress on Afghanistan’s Corruption, Brookings Institute

Should the United States Withdraw From Afghanistan? Cato Institute

A “Better War” in Afghanistan, Center for a New American Security

Shape, Clear, Hold and Build: “Uncertain Lessons of the Afghan and Iraq Wars”, Centre for Security & Int’l Studies

Pakistani Capabilities for a Counterinsurgency Campaign, New America Foundation

President Asif Ali Zardari Address, International Institute for Strategic Studies

The Will To Intervene (W2I) Report, Montreal Institute For Genocide & Human Rights Studies

The Congolese Elite and the Fragmented City, LSE Crisis States Research Center

Regional Arrangements and Security Challenges, LSE Crisis States Research Center

Discussion on Drug Syndicates, Institute For Security Studies