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David Siroky has been chosen by the United States Institute of Peace as a Peace Scholar for 2008-2009. David's proposal was selected as one of ten winners from a pool of 166 applications. [more info]
Alexander Downes' new book
In this book, Downes asks why states engage in civilian victimization -- military strategies that target an enemy's civilian population in wartime. He argues that such strategies are employed in two circumstances: to coerce an adversary to give up when leaders become desperate to win or to reduce their military casualties in costly wars of attrition, and to eliminate actual or potential resistance by the population in wars to conquer and annex an enemy's territory. http://www.duke.edu/~downes/publications.htm
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