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ISCS Director Alex Downes Contributes to Roundtable on Potential Israeli Occupation of Gaza

October 30, 2023October 30, 2023Front Slider

Summary: In a roundtable with political scientists on the prospects of Israeli occupation in Gaza, Downes addresses the relevance of targeting civilians, the question of foreign – imposed regime change and lessons to draw from the politics of foreign occupation.

New Book by Amy Austin-Holmes, ISCS Visiting Scholar

September 14, 2023September 14, 2023Front Slider, Publications

Book Summary:

In Statelet of Survivors, Amy Austin Holmes charts the history of one of the most radical experiments in self-governance of our time: a statelet created by Kurds, Arabs, and Assyrians.

The semi-autonomous region has its own military and police forces; schools with language instruction in Kurdish, Aramaic, and Arabic; local governance that empowers women and recognizes Yezidis; an economic eco-system that strives to undo decades of underdevelopment; and a new judicial system to hold perpetrators accountable for ISIS crimes.

Holmes traces the genealogy of the statelet to the Republic of Mount Ararat, a self-governing entity proclaimed in 1927 based on solidarity between Kurds and Armenian genocide survivors.

Former GW Ph.D. Student in Residence at ISCS Danielle Gilbert (Ph.D., 2020) begins new position as Assistant Professor of Political Science at NorthwesternUniversity

September 14, 2023September 14, 2023Front Slider

Congratulations, Dani!

Make sure to check out her website.

ISCS Faculty Affiliate Joanna Spear, Research Professor of InternationalAffairs and Director of the FAO Regional Skill Sustainment Initiative, to spend 2023-24 as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC.

September 14, 2023September 14, 2023Front Slider

View more of Professor Spears accomplishments on the Elliott School website!

ISCS Fellow Accepts Position at Air Force Academy

April 13, 2020August 24, 2021Front Slider, Uncategorized

Current ISCS Fellow and GW Ph.D. student in Political Science Danielle Gilbert has accepted a job as Assistant Professor of Military and Strategic Studies at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Dani plans to defend her dissertation this spring before taking up her new position over the summer. Congratulations Dani! We will miss you!

Trio of ISCS Fellows Awarded Smith Richardson Fellowships

March 18, 2020August 3, 2020Front Slider

Three ISCS fellows and current GW Ph.D. candidates in Political Science–Danielle Gilbert, Kendrick Kuo, and Shahryar Pasandideh–have been awarded World Politics and Statecraft Fellowships from the Smith Richardson Foundation for the 2020-21 academic year. The purpose of these $7,500 fellowships is “to support Ph.D. dissertation research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, strategic studies, area studies, and diplomatic and military history.”

ISCS Fellow Accepts Pre-doctoral Fellowship at Texas A&M

March 18, 2020August 24, 2021Front Slider, Uncategorized

Kendrick Kuo, an ISCS Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at GW, has accepted a Pre-doctoral fellowship for the 2020-21 academic year at the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy in the Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University. Kuo will spend the year completing his dissertation, “Military Innovation and the Illusion of Power,” which studies the conditions under which military innovation enhances or undermines combat power.

Dr. Glaser Receives the 2018 ISA ISSS Award

June 20, 2018August 6, 2018Front SliderLeave a Comment

Dr. Charles Glaser, director of ISCS, recently received the ISA International Security Studies Section 2018 Distinguished Scholar Award. The Distinguished Scholar Award is given for life achievement in International Security Studies. Nominees for this honor have made major contributions to scholarship in the field both via their own research and writing and their mentorship of others.

A panel, honoring the contribution of Dr. Glaser, accompanied the award and included: John Mearsheimer (Chicago), Barry Posen (MIT), Andy Kydd (Wisconsin), Jon Caverley, (Naval War College), Rose Kelanic (Notre Dame), and Julia Macdonald (University of Denver). Click to watch Dr. Glaser’s ISA award acceptance and panel.