David Cortright and Kristen Wall The U.S. is set to withdraw the bulk of its forces from Afghanistan by 2014. This transition period is fraught with risk for Afghan women, many of whom have benefited during 10 years of improved access to education, health care, and...
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Keeping the Peace: Lessons from Data for Peacebuilding
Kristen Wall and David Cortright Conflict data sets enable peace scholars to identify key practices that make a difference in peacebuilding. Take, for example, the practice of peacekeeping. One of the strongest findings to emerge from empirical research is that...
Reciprocal Bargaining: The Best Hope for Denuclearization
David Cortright and Linda Gerber-Stellingwerf The history of nonproliferation teaches that nations must be persuaded rather than forced to give up nuclear weapons capability. This is a difficult challenge with a regime as truculent as North Korea, where the primary...
Cold Warriors Against the Bomb
David Cortright Old thinking retains its grip at the Pentagon. The vested interests that profit from excessive military spending remain a formidable lobby. Congress sustains nuclear postures that are inherited from the Cold War and continues to fund unneeded weapons...
Military Interventionism in Libya: A Pandora’s Box of Questions
David Cortright I supported the no-fly zone over Libya as a necessary measure to protect civilians from imminent threat of military attack. During the course of the intervention, however, many questions emerged. What began as a limited mission to prevent a massacre...
Glimpses of the Revolution in Egypt
David Cortright The enormity of what the Egyptian people have accomplished is breathtaking. The Mubarak dictatorship was brought down in just 18 days through unarmed mass revolution. Estimates of the number of people actively involved range from a low of 7 million to...