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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 Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine, 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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Science & Nature

New Pathogen, Old Politics

We should be wary of simplistic uses of history, but we can learn from the logic of social responses.

Alex de Waal

Global Justice

Mass Starvation Is a Crime—It's Time We Treated It That Way

The famine in Yemen is not simply “man-made.” Particular men are responsible, and they should be brought to justice.

Alex de Waal

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

Terrorist during Westgate Mall attack. On May 28, in his commencement address at West Point

Alex de Waal

Global Justice, Politics

Tragedy in Darfur

On understanding and ending the horror

Alex de Waal

Global Justice, Politics

The Wrong Lessons

The vanishing legacy of Operation Restore Hope.

Alex de Waal

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