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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.

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The New Humanitarianism

How military intervention became the norm.

John Tirman

Nationalism in Exile

John Tirman
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Forces of Civility

The NGO revolution and the search for peace.

John Tirman

Ataturk’s Children

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

John Tirman

Forum Responses

Response: A Bloody Affair

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

Response: In the National Interest — Forum Response

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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