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Alex de Waal

Alex de Waal is Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. He is the author of The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power and editor of Advocacy in Conflict: Critical Perspectives on Transnational Activism.

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Global Justice, Politics

Garrison America and the Threat of Global War

The crisis of liberal capitalism has arrived, bringing us to the brink of total global war.

Alex de Waal

Global Justice, War & Security

The End of Interventionism

Two new British reports deliver a damning and decisive verdict on the politics of interventionism.

Alex de Waal

Global Justice, Politics

Brexit Threatens World Peace and Security

The vote will have consequences far beyond the UK's borders. 

Alex de Waal

Global Justice, Politics

Writing Human Rights and Getting It Wrong

The West likes morality plays with clear heroes and villains, in which we play the role of savior.

Alex de Waal

Politics, War & Security

Assassinating Terrorists Does Not Work

It creates more violent terrorists and leaves no one who can talk peace

Alex de Waal

Global Justice

Open Letter to Gayle Smith, Nominee for USAID Administrator

At USAID there’s one simple thing you can commit to: no famine.

Alex de Waal

World

Militarizing Global Health

Epidemics are not security crises. But the army is often our only tool.

Alex de Waal

Blog, World

Why Obama's $5 Billion Counterterrorism Fund Will Actually Support Terrorism

  #181671116 / gettyimages.com   On May 28, in his commencement address at West

Alex de Waal

Global Justice, Politics

Tragedy in Darfur

Every genocide is hideous, each in its own grotesque way. Searching for the origins and

Alex de Waal

Global Justice, Politics

The Wrong Lessons

In the last days of his presidency, George H.W. Bush dispatched the U.S. Marines to Somalia for

Alex de Waal

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