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October 29th, 2008
Submitted by
Saad Eskander, Iraq National Library and Archives
What has prompted me to write this paper is the continuing refusal of the U.S. to pay serious attention to Iraqi calls for the repatriation of the Iraqi records illegally seized by its military and intelligence agencies. Most recently, the Pentagon has issued an announcement, calling upon U.S. universities, research centers and scholars to submit [...]
October 29th, 2008
Submitted by
Ian Roxborough, Stony Brook University
If social scientists are to have a more effective engagement with the military we need to understand them better. It is not enough simply to produce research, package it, and hand it over to be used by the military. We should think about how it will be appropriated by them. Let me first argue the [...]
October 9th, 2008
Submitted by
John Tirman, MIT Center for International Studies
The Defense Department’s Minerva program stirs many interesting debates, and among them should be what the program says about the government’s assessment of security threats to the United States. It is not a satisfying picture. Of the five major program interests articulated by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and the program guidelines, three of them [...]
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