Accession Number:

AD1058528

Title:

Past is Prologue: Abroad in Syria with the Ghosts of Iraq

Descriptive Note:

[Technical Report, Study/Analysis]

Corporate Author:

Peacekeeping And Stability Opertions Institute

Personal Author(s):

• Alpher, David

Report Date:

2017-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

89

Abstract:

Nature abhors a vacuum, and the end of violent conflict by definition leaves a big one. If that vacuum is not filled by something positive, it will be filled by something negative, and the negative tends to move with shocking speed this is as close to inevitable as history offers us. In the absence of good governance, peace and security, warlords, transnational criminals, paramilitaries and factional forces take the field unchallenged.

Descriptors:

• national politics
• national governments
• international organizations
• department of state
• national security
• civil war
• governments
• personnel management
• second world war
• united states
• federal budgets
• intergovernmental organizations
• military training
• political systems
• terrorism
• foreign policy
• human rights
• recognition
• security
• stability operations

Subject Categories:

• Government and Political Science

Distribution Statement:

[A, Approved For Public Release]