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Posted on December 7, 2012 by Editor
We are proud to release the inaugural issue of Global Security Studies Review(GSSR), the official academic review of Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program (SSP), the academic pillar of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service’s Center for Security Studies. We would like to thank the staffs of GSSR and SSP, as well as all of our anonymous peer reviewers.
We cover a diverse range of topics in this issue. In “Somalia: A Misguided Model for Successful Intervention in Mali,” Kate Mrkvicka juxtaposes the lessons that have been learned from recent armed interventions against al-Shabaab in Somalia against those that should have been learned, and explains why the Somali intervention experience is not readily translatable to the unfolding situation in northern Mali. Andrea Clabough compares the conditions that contributed to the outbreak of Lebanon’s civil war in 1975 with Lebanon’s situation today vis-à-vis the conflict in Syria in “Lebanon and the Syrian Civil War: The Descent Back Into Conflict,” and offers policy prescriptions to mitigate the impact of violence in Syria on Lebanon’s stability. In “Pakistan, the United States, and the Confidence Deficit,” Aled Lloyd Owen discusses the nature and evolution of America’s strategic relationship with Pakistan, particularly in light of the killing of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad last year.
Tomas Kristlik, in “The End of the Drug War: Its Implications and the Future of Drug Trafficking in Mexico,” discusses some of the salient factors that affected how the Mexican government prosecuted the Drug War there and the outcome of the conflict, as well as how Mexican criminal organizations and cartels are likely to react prospectively. Roslyn Warren argues in “Miscalculating Nuclear Deterrence: Iran and the Bomb” that, contrary to Kenneth Waltz’s Foreign Affairs article, “Why Iran Should Get the Bomb,” a nuclear-armed Iran will decrease regional stability and increase the likelihood of both conventional and nuclear conflict. Finally, in their op-ed, “Libya and the U.S.: More than Benghazi,” Andrew Engel and Anonymous argue for the strengthening of ties between the United States and Libya.
We hope that you will find these pieces thought-provoking and informative. GSSRis happy to contribute to ongoing and emerging policy analysis and debate, and we welcome you to join the discussion by submitting a letter to the editors, op-ed, or full-length article for potential publication in GSSR. Please also visit GSSR’s regularly-updated blog, Global Security Studies Forum, where we also welcome your thoughts and comments.
Ashley Frohwein, Executive Editor
Aled Lloyd Owen, Deputy Executive Editor
Aled Lloyd Owen, Deputy Executive Editor
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