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John Tirman

John Tirman is Executive Director of the MIT Center for International Studies and author of The Deaths of Others: The Fate of Civilians in America’s Wars.

Articles

How military intervention became the norm.

John Tirman
John Tirman

The NGO revolution and the search for peace.

John Tirman

Casting light on Washington's genocidal ally in the Middle East.

John Tirman

Forum Responses

Alexander Downes makes a strong and smart argument about the perils of regime change. He lists several of those perils, and I will expand on one, which further explains why regime change...
John Tirman
The most vexing term in the foreign-policy lexicon is “national interests.” It is used promiscuously by just about everyone in any debate, as if its meaning were clear. Certain attributes are intuitively...
John Tirman

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