The Insurgency and Irregular Warfare Working Group will bring together academics from various disciplines - international relations, comparative politics, and the natural sciences - to explore current problems related to insurgency and counter-insurgency. The goal is to generate meaningful scholarly work on a host of current academic and policy issues that straddle existing disciplinary boundaries. By engaging graduate students and faculty from a number of fields at MIT, the founders hope to stimulate new thinking on a number of important topics. Roger Petersen is the faculty sponsor of this working group. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Colin Jackson (jacksonc@mit.edu) or Austin Long (along@mit.edu).
February 7, 2007
Major John Basso, United States Army
>> Counter-insurgency in Iraq
February 21, 2007
Adria Lawrence, Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University
>>The Sword of the Sultan? Terror, Riots, and Insurgency in the Moroccan Anti-Colonial Movement: A Theory of Competitive Violence.
March 14, 2007
Paul Staniland and Sarah Zukerman, MIT
>>The Effects of Foreign Fighters on Civil Wars.
October 11, 2006
Austin Long, MIT
>>On 'Other War': Lessons from Five Decades of RAND Corporation Counterinsurgency Research
November 15, 2006
Roger Petersen, MIT
>>Reason and Passion in the Reconstruction of Multiethnic States