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The Evolution of American Security
AN INTERVIEW WITH AMBASSADOR JOHN D. NEGROPONTE
From Volume 5, Issue 2 – Spring/Summer 2010: Spotlight on Security. Ambassador John D. Negroponte is the Brady-Johnson Distinguished Senior Research Fellow in Grand Strategy and Lecturer in International Affairs at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. Ambassador Negroponte served as the first Director of National Intelligence from 2005-2007 and the Deputy Secretary of State from 2007-2009. He also served as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations between 2001 and 2004 and is a four-time ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, and Iraq.
Blackwater’s Rise and the Draft’s Demise
BY JOSEPH PAUL VASQUEZ, III, PhD From Volume 5, Issue 2 – Spring/Summer 2010: Spotlight on Security. The dangers of private military contractors and possibilities for stemming their growth
Why U.S. Power Does Not Deter Challenges
BY NUNO P. MONTEIRO, PhD From Volume 5, Issue 2 – Spring/Summer 2010: Spotlight on Security. How U.S. foreign policy could be more effective through more credible assurances for compliance
The Puzzle of Iraqi Mortality: Surges, Civilian Deaths and Alternative Meanings
BY CHRISTIAN DAVENPORT AND MOLLY INMAN From Volume 5, Issue 1 – Winter 2010: Spotlight on Development. Conventional wisdom says that the Bush Administration’s 2007 surge was a success. Though a decrease of violence in Iraq followed its implementation, Christian Davenport and Molly Inman contend that the surge alone may not have been wholly responsible for the on the on-the-ground changes it is assumed to have engendered.
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