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Precision Lethality and Civilian Harm Mitigation: Challenges and Opportunities in the Future of Warfighting

Foreign Policy Essay

Dangers of Deploying the Military on U.S. Soil

The Center of the Jihadist Universe

Ken Watkin

Jul 11, 2016

PDF version A review of Charles Lister's The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency (Oxford, 2015). ***
In Defense of a Unified Syria

Sloane Speakman

Jul 3, 2016

Syria’s five-year-long, communally charged conflict has led many to call for the country to be partitioned – perhaps even into four or five smaller states.
Culture War or Common Heritage? On Recent Critics of Global Religious Freedom

Daniel Philpott

Jun 30, 2016

PDF version A review of Elizabeth Shakman Hurd's Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion (Princeton, 2015) and Saba Mahmood's Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Repo...