Omnivore 24/09/09

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

Jon Western at Duck of Minerva

Last Friday, Charli Carpenter announced that Jon Western, Five College Associate Professor at Mount Holyoake College, has joined the blogging team at Duck of Minerva. Western featured prominently in Samantha Power’s Pulitzer-winning book  A Problem From Hell: America in the Age of Genocide; she describes how he, and others like him, resigned in protest from the US State Department in the mid-1990s. Western’s first post at DoM, not to mention his work on humanitarian intervention, suggest that the blogosphere and the discussion on Afghanistan have just been elevated. One worth watching.