Sep 6, 2020
With Labor Day behind us and the weather cooling down, summer is
very nearly over - but there's still time for one more episode of
our special Summer Reading List podcast series.
Our last episode features Barbara Elias, an
Assistant Professor of Government at Bowdoin College specializing
in international relations, insurgency warfare, U.S. foreign
policy, and the relationship between Islam and politics. Her new
book, Why Allies Rebel: Defiant Local
Partners in Counterinsurgency Wars, was released by
Cambridge University Press in June.
In our conversation, Professor Elias explains why local forces in
war-torn countries may choose to cooperate with - or defy - a
foreign intervening power; what the stories she tells in her book,
from Vietnam to Afghanistan, mean for the future of U.S. foreign
policy; and how to approach research in archives.
Music & Produced by Tre Hester.