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Hoover Digest by topic: Ethnic Conflicts

April 26, 2013

Keeping the Peace

January 25, 2013

The Ever-Useful Mob

mannequins
Image credit: German Federal Archives

Beware of “spontaneous” outrage and the temptation to appeasement. By Yuri Yarim-Agaev.

October 26, 2012

The Syrian Rebellion

late leader Hafez al-Assad
Image credit: © ABACA/Newscom

Bashar al-Assad was once the reformer, the “good czar” who would lead Syria into modern times. It was never meant to be. By Fouad Ajami.

August 13, 2012

Hearts and Minds: Counting the Costs

Brenda Dwiggins
Image credit: U.S. Marine Corps/Lance Cpl. Gabriela Garcia

The American way of winning popular support is now a well-oiled—and very expensive—strategic machine. By Thomas H. Henriksen.

August 13, 2012

A New Grand Strategy

The greater Mideast is being transformed. Now the United States must transform its Mideast policy just as dramatically. By Charles Hill.

April 6, 2012

Shooting the Bolsheviks

Three barefoot men face
Image credit: Hoover Archives

Amid the ruins of the Great War, an American camera crew filmed a shocking sight. That roll of celluloid has taken a strange trip through history. By Bertrand M. Patenaude.

April 6, 2012

Restraint is Powerful

General Ray Odierno and Army officer Joseph McGee
Image credit: U.S. Army/Sgt. Kani Ronningen

Do our strict codes of conduct unduly burden our soldiers in the field? Not according to this officer. A first-person account of events in Iraq. By Joseph McGee.

January 23, 2012

Puzzling Violence

Figure 1. Militarized Disputes between Pairs of Countries

Democracy may be on the rise in the world, but so is a strange trend: more wars. By Mark Harrison.

October 12, 2011

To the Shores of Tripolitania

man with grenade
Image credit: Hoover Archives

Libya has known autocrats and invaders before. A century ago, Italians came, saw, conquered . . . and were defeated. By Charles Lindsey.