Call for Papers: The USNA Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies Sustainable Security conference will take place February 9–11, 2011, in Annapolis, Maryland. Organizers are looking for papers that creatively reflect how emering transnational issues are reshaping the security agenda, and offer innovative solutions to the new challenges. Paper proposals are due September 1, 2010. More.
How Development Can Help Fight Radicals: In a study conducted using data on Iraq, IGCC Research Director Eli Berman and coauthors Joseph Felter and Jacob Shapiro find that the provision of certain government services does lead to a reduction in violence. More.
Tension Between the Koreas Mounts in Aftermath of Ship Sinking: IGCC Director Susan Shirk comments on the crisis in the Washington Post and McClatchy News.
 IGCC Researcher Provides Expert Testimony: Tai Ming Cheung spoke before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission at a May 20 hearing on "China’s Emergent Military Aerospace and Commercial Aviation Capabilities." More.
New and Notable:
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Radical, Religious, and Violent: The New Economics
of Terrorism
(MIT Press, 2009)
Eli Berman is
IGCC Research Director for International Security Studies
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Bellagio Framework for Sustainable Fisheries
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