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Arnold. A Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies Newsletter | Vol. 009| December, 2007 |
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Welcome to the Arnold A. Saltzman
Institute of War and Peace Studies electronic newsletter. We look
forward to keeping you informed of developments and issues from the
institute |
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The Rose Revolution: Four Years Later Co-sponsored with the Harriman Institute, on November 30, 2007, SIWPS presented a conference on the state of Georgia since the Rose Revolution. Look for additional details and a full transcript on our website soon.
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New Book from SIWPS Professor Professor Tanisha Fazal's book State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest was published by Princeton University Press.
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New Book from SIWPS Professor SIWPS Director Richard Betts' book Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and Power in American National Security was published by Columbia University Press. Professor Betts also served as the S. Rajaratnam Professor of Strategic Stduies at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies, National Technoloogical University of Singapore during the month of August 2007. |
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Recent Articles by SIWPS Professor Professor Kimberly Marten published two articles: “Statebuilding and Force: The Proper Role of Foreign Militaries,” Journal of Intervention and State-Building 1, no. 2 (June 2007): 231-47.
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SIWPS Launches Working Paper Series The institute is launching a series of Saltzman Working Papers, designed to circulate initial drafts of research and essays in progress by SIWPS faculty and affiliated research scholars. These will publicize forthcoming finished work, reach some audiences who might not encounter the later published versions, and invite comments that the authors can use in revising the papers for publication in journals or edited volumes. The papers will come out in hard copies, and many of them will be posted on the SIWPS website. The first papers in the series are:
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SWAMOS 2007 Our Eleventh Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS), was held on the Cornell University campus on July 8-27, 2007 (photos above and left). The three directing faculty included, Richard Betts of Columbia University and SIWPS, Stephen Biddle of the U.S. Army War College, and Barry Posen of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Their teaching was supplemented by an array of accomplished scholars, policy analysts and military professionals. Each taught onsite for a few days at a time. This year’s SWAMOS participants included twenty-two scholars from Japan, Israel, Italy, Singapore, Canada and the United States. More information about SWAMOS is available on our website at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/siwps.
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