Month: September 2014
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The Art of Reading
If these trends inform the larger universe of the reading world —if they indicate a growing hesitation to engage deeply with the messiness of real life— then we might be reading more while learning less
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The Trouble with Titles: On Perspective and Opinion
My op-ed was not intended —in a meager 800 words— to clearly render the entire landscape of UN peacekeeping. The goal was to illustrate how responsibility —and the empty rhetoric that follows its invocation— demands accounting.
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Prisoners of Peace
Today, peacekeepers are more apt to serve in regions where there is “no peace to keep”; where the potential belligerents are non-state actors (rebels, extremist groups, etc…) to whom the rules of international law —and the logic of deterrence— matter little; and where Western (or “developed”) countries are loathe to donate their own troops.
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Soldiers From Developing Countries Have Become the World’s Peacekeepers
In the fight to preserve stability, who shoulders the burden? My latest @TIME
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Whose History?
Meaningful scholarship breeds careful, sensitive scholars —and the world is far too complex to give American students an easy pass.
Adam McCauley 