Francis J. Gavin, Distinguished Fellow at the Strauss Center, recently authored an article in Texas National Security Review, “What Exactly Are We Doing.” In his article, he urges the U.S. to refocus its core strategic interests in the Middle East while calling for Americans to engage in respectful and passionate discourse on difficult foreign policy issues.
“Smart, insightful people offer sharply disagreeing views in heated language, while deriving world-historical morals where, upon calm reflection, there appear to be few,” states Gavin.
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The Strauss Center is recruiting three senior student associates to assist with reviewing data on the geography of violence in Latin America for the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED). ACLED is the world’s leading source of real-time political conflict data, providing detailed data on conflict patterns, actors, and dynamics in myriad countries around the world. This project is...
In his recent post for Lawfare, Strauss Center Director and James Baker Professor in Law, Bobby Chesney, provides a critical response to the White House’s October 6th, 2019 statement announcing the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Northern Syria. Chesney first highlights some notable omissions from the White House statement—namely, the role of Kurdish coalition partners in the defeat of the Islamic State...
Women around the world are facing unprecedented levels of targeted political violence. According to new data on political violence targeting women collated by the Robert Strauss Center and Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), the threat to women has grown in recent years, currently reaching some of the highest levels ever recorded. (more…)