Articles & Op-Eds
Names in parentheses are co-authors who do not necessarily endorse the ideas of the Truman Project.
2007
Bank Robbers
Joshua Kurlantzick
The New Republic, April 9, 2007
Fixing the Collateral Damage
Sarah Holewinski
International Herald Tribune, March 7, 2007
It's Time to Fire a Few Generals
Phillip Carter
Slate, March 1, 2007
A Lesson in Stifling Violent Extremism
Waleed Ziad (and Laryssa Chomiak)
The Christian Science Monitor, February 20, 2007
National Security Temptations
Marc Grinberg and Shadi Hamid
TomPaine.com, January 8, 2007
2006
What About the Grunts?
Phillip Carter
Slate, December 7, 2006
Canada's Terrorism Problem
Joshua Kurlantzick
The New Republic, June 7, 2006
What's Worse than a Nuclear Iran? A Nuclear North Korea
Joshua Kurlantzick
The New Republic, May 23, 2006
How to Convince China to Help Stop the Darfur Genocide
Joshua Kurlantzick
The New Republic, May 11, 2006
The True Cost of War
Sarah Holewinski
The Washington Post, April 15, 2006
Strategies for Global Counterinsurgency
Jonathan Morgenstein (and Eric Vickland)
The Boston Globe, March 28, 2006
Rehabilitating a Rogue: Libya's WMD Reversal and Lessons for US Policy
Dafna Hochman
US Army War College Quarterly, Spring 2006
2005
China's Disease Cauldron
Elizabeth Prescott
The National Interest, Fall 2005
Jihad's Fresh Face
Waleed Ziad
The New York Times, September 16, 2005
War on Terror Begs a New Strategy
Rachel Kleinfeld
Anchorage Daily News, August 14, 2005
A Guantánamo Exit Strategy
Phillip Carter
Foreign Policy, July, 2005
Note to Democrats: Draw Bright Lines on Iraq Policy
Seth Green
New Haven Register
The Thankless Task of Promoting Democracy
Matthew Spence
International Herald Tribune, April 25, 2005
Foreign Exchange
David Fontana
The New Republic
Reform Follows Function: Kyrgyzstan's Lesson to the West
Matthew Spence
The New Republic
Why It's Time for Truman Democrats
Rachel Kleinfeld Belton and Matthew Spence
History News Network
2004
Stand by Ukraine's Struggle
Matthew Spence
Los Angeles Times
Strength with Principle:
Creating Truman Democrats
Rachel Kleinfeld and Matthew Spence
Guerrillas in the Mist:
What the Pentagon Can Learn from the Green Berets
Phillip Carter
Washington Monthly
The Road to Abu Ghraib
Phillip Carter
Washington Monthly
How the Holy Warriors Learned to Hate
Waleed Ziad
New York Times
Democrats, Show More Spine
Michael Signer
USA Today
Aids Threatens Global Security
Greg Behrman
International Herald Tribune
Hollow Force: Has Iraq Stretched the U.S.
Military to Its Breaking Point?
Phillip Carter
Slate
Goodbye Geneva: It's Time to Rewrite the
Laws of War
Phillip Carter
Slate
Aids Fight Demands Serious Money and
Serious Plan
Greg Behrman
Los Angeles Times
We Must Face a Connected World's
'Butterfly Effect'
(R. James Woolsey) and Rachel Kleinfeld Belton
Los Angeles Times
The Petersburg Experience: Putin's
Political Career and Russian Foriegn Policy
Samuel Charap
Problems of Post-Communism
2003-2002
Safety Match
Seth Green
The American Prospect
Faux Pax Americana: The Lesson From
Iraq Is That Fewer Troops Can Win a War,
But Can't Keep the Peace
Philip Carter
Washington Monthly
A Military Orphan Faces the Axe
Lorelei Kelly
Boston Globe
Exporting Democracy Is a Challenge
Matthew Spence
Baltimore Sun
Close Encounter
Seth Green
The American Prospect
Iraq: Wrong Time, Wrong Plan
Seth J. Green and (Jason H. Wasfy)
Daily Princetonian
The U.S. Must Find Its Lost Voice
Matthew Spence
Los Angeles Times
NATO Expansion: Changing the Debate
Samuel Charap
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
How 9-11 Happened: A New Book
Chronicles the Pitfalls of Counterterrorism
Siddharth Mohandas
Newsweek
A Problem From Hell: America and the
Age of Genocide
Siddharth Mohandas
The American Prospect