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How the Good War Went Bad: America’s Slow-Motion Failure in Afghanistan

Author: Carter Malkasian Affiliation: Former Senior Adviser to U.S. General Joseph Dunford in Afghanistan, and former  Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Organization/Publisher: Foreign Affairs  Date/Place: April 2020/USA Type of Literature: Magazine Article Number of Pages: 14 Link:https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/fora99&div=43&id=&page= Keywords:…

The Endless Fantasy of American Power

Author: Andrew Bacevich Affiliation:  The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft  Organization/Publisher: Foreign Affairs Date/Place: September 18, 2020/USA Type of Literature: Article Word Count: 1600 Link:    Keywords: The Myth of American Leadership, Militarization of Foreign Policy, Demilitarize Foreign Policy,…

Sectarianization and Memory in the post-Saddam Middle East: the ‘Alāqima

Author: Nassima Neggaz Affiliation: Division of Humanities, New College Florida, FL, USA Organization/Publisher: The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies  Date/Place: July 26, 2020/ UK Type of Literature: Journal Article Number of Pages: 19 Link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13530194.2020.1772041?scroll=top&needAccess=true  Keywords: US Invasion, Iraq, Alaqima,…

Tackling police racism

Author: Dr. Champa Patel Affiliation: Director, Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House  Organization/Publisher: Chatham House Date/Place: 2020/UK Type of Literature: Article Word Count:  1893 Link: Keywords: UK, Institutional racism, Police racism, sus laws, Black communities Brief: There are various examples of institutional…

The Missing Peace in the Abraham Accords

Author: Daniel Levy Affiliation: The American Prospect Organization/Publisher: The American Prospect Date/Place: September 17, 2020/Washington, D.C., USA Type of Literature: Article Word Count: 2494 Link:  Keywords: Peace Deal, Middle East, Israel, Palestine, US, Trump Brief: The author explicates how the…