Commentaries

LISD Commentaries are editorial style articles that provide analysis and insights to a broad range of current events and pressing policy issues. Commentaries are written by LISD researchers, faculty associates, non-resident associates, and participants in LISD-sponsored lectures, panels, workshops, and colloquia.

Durand Line map
07/2018
Does Trump's South Asia Strategy Trump the Taliban?
Joseph Mohr
10/2017
Self-Determination Crises in Our Times: A Brief Re-Assessment
Wolfgang Danspeckgruber
10/2017
Catalonia, In Search of Political Guarantees: The Referendum of October 1, 2017
Carles Boix
2018
Does Trump's South Asia Strategy Trump the Taliban?
Joseph Mohr
2018
Is Iran in the Process of Overextending Itself? Israel's Fear of a Super-Hezbollah
Walter Posch
2017
Catalonia, In Search of Political Guarantees: The Referendum of October 1, 2017
Carles Boix
2017
Self-Determination Crises in Our Times: A Brief Re-Assessment
Wolfgang Danspeckgruber
2017
Kurdistan and Its Referendum
Walter Posch
2017
Potemkin's Refugee Policy
Georg Gassauer
2016
A Triad of Principles for Today's Global State
Wolfgang Danspeckgruber
2015
The Fourteen Explanatory Points of President Vladimir Putin's Syria Action
Wolfgang Danspeckgruber
2014
Referendum
Matt Qvortrup
2013
Did Karzai Really Accuse the United States of Collusion with the Taliban?
Sarwar Sultani
2013
Supporting the UN Security Council in Applying Its Thematic Agendas to Its Country-Specifc Work
Swen Dornig
2013
A Conversation with Fazwia Koofi
Fawzia Koofi, Ankit Panda
2013
To Be or Not To Be: Fact and Fiction in the Nuclear Fatwa Debate
Ali Ansari
2013
USA-Iran: Did Khamenei Say "No" to Direct Talks?
Walter Posch
2012
Social Entrepreneurship, Student Activism, and the Fight Against Human Trafficking
Brittany Partridge
2012
Human Trafficking in Cambodia
Alison Boden
2011
Tremor in Turkey
Robert Finn
2011
The Turkish National Election
Robert Finn
2011
A French View of Counter-Insurgency in Afghanistan
Col. Benoit Durieux
2011
Crisis in Egypt: How Should the United States Respond?
Daniel Nikbakht
2010
The US and Turkey in 2010
Robert Finn
2010
Kyrgyzstan: Turning Over a New Leaf
Robert Finn
2010
Kyrgyz Quandry
Robert Finn
2010
On Crises and Compression: Considerations of a Jordanian Diplomat
Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al Hussein
2009
A Letter from Tehran
Wolfgang Danspeckgruber
2009
Afghanistan: Still Wrong After All These Years
Robert Finn
2009
Observations of the 2009 Afghan Elections
Carol Wang
2009
Afghanistan's Presidental Elections
Robert Finn
2009
Lack of Transparency Undermined Confidence in Results of Iranian Election
Mirjam Kunkler, Michael Meyer-Resende
2009
Obama's Pudding
Uriel Abulof
2009
The Problem and Promise of Afghanistan
Robert Finn
2009
Two-State Solution, Two Roads Not Taken
Uriel Abulof
2009
Two Rights Make a Wrong: "Self-Determination" Revisited
Uriel Abulof, Wolfgang Danspeckgruber
2009
Cyberspace and Propaganda: Israel and the War in Gaza
Jan Thomas Otte
2009
"Ballots, Bust and Bombs": The Middle East's Defining Moments
Uriel Abulof
2008
Russia and Georgia at War
Michael A. Reynolds
2008
Central Asia and Afghanistan
Robert Finn
2008
Three Critical Concerns for the Macro-Middle East
Wolfgang Danspeckgruber
2008
Notes from Kabul
Wolfgang Danspeckgruber
2008
Kosovo's Independence
Wolfgang Danspeckgruber