James Dobbins — Publications
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Reconstructing Ukraine: Creating a Freer, More Prosperous, and Secure Future
2023
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Advancing Global Citizenship in America
2022
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Engage, Isolate, or Oppose: American Policy Toward the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
2022
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A Guide to Extreme Competition with China
2021
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DDR in Afghanistan: Disarming, Demobilizing, and Reintegrating Afghan Combatants in Accordance with a Peace Agreement
2020
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The Lost Generation in American Foreign Policy: How American Influence Has Declined, and What Can Be Done About It
2020
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Seizing the Golden Hour: Tasks, Organization, and Capabilities Required for the Earliest Phase of Stability Operations
2020
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Stabilizing Eastern Syria After ISIS
2020
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Weighing U.S. Troop Withdrawal from Iraq: Strategic Risks and Recommendations
2020
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Africa's Role in Nation-Building: An Examination of African-Led Peace Operations
2019
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America's Strategy-Resource Mismatch: Addressing the Gaps Between U.S. National Strategy and Military Capacity
2019
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A Consensus Proposal for a Revised Regional Order in Post-Soviet Europe and Eurasia
2019
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Consequences of a Precipitous U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
2019
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Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground
2019
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How African Institutions Help Keep the Peace
2019
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Overextending and Unbalancing Russia: Assessing the Impact of Cost-Imposing Options
2019
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Russia Is a Rogue, Not a Peer; China Is a Peer, Not a Rogue: Different Challenges, Different Responses
2019
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After the Summit: Prospects for the Korean Peninsula
2018
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Getting Out from "In-Between": Perspectives on the Regional Order in Post-Soviet Europe and Eurasia
2018
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Saving Transatlantic Cooperation and the Iran Nuclear Deal: A View from Europe and the United States
2018
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Conflict with China Revisited: Prospects, Consequences, and Strategies for Deterrence
2017
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Foreign Service: Five Decades on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy
2017
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Knowing the Enemy: Understanding the Islamic State and Principles for Defeating It
2017
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A Peace Plan for Syria III: Agreed Zones of Control, Decentralization, and International Administration
2017
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A Peace Plan for Syria IV: A Bottom-Up Approach, Linking Reconstruction Assistance to Local Government Formation
2017
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Rolling Back the Islamic State
2017
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A Peace Plan for Syria II: Options for Future Governance
2016
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Will the Iran Deal Survive? Iran, Regional Crises, and U.S. Policy
2016
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Choices for America in a Turbulent World: Strategic Rethink
2015
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A Peace Plan for Syria
2015
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Developing a U.S. Strategy for Dealing with China — Now and into the Future
2014
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The U.S. Army in Asia, 2030-2040
2014
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Overcoming Obstacles to Peace
2013
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Overcoming Obstacles to Peace: Local Factors in Nation-Building
2013
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RAND Review: Vol. 37, No. 1, Summer 2013
2013
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The Case for Expanding Assistance to the Syrian Opposition
2012
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RAND Review: Vol. 36, No. 2, Fall 2012
2012
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RAND Review: Vol. 36, No. 1, Spring 2012
2012
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What’s the Potential for Conflict with China, and How Can It Be Avoided?
2012
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Afghanistan: Guidelines for a Peace Process
2011
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Afghan Peace Talks: A Primer
2011
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Conflict with China: Prospects, Consequences, and Strategies for Deterrence
2011
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Coping with a Nuclearizing Iran
2011
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The Long Shadow of 9/11: America's Response to Terrorism
2011
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RAND Review: Vol. 35, No. 3, Winter 2011-2012
2011
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Building a More Resilient Haitian State: Key Recommendations and Priorities
2010
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Building a More Resilient Haitian State: French translation of summary
2010
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Building a More Resilient Haitian State
2010
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RAND Review: Vol. 34, No. 3, Winter 2010-2011
2010
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Reconstructing Haiti
2010
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Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
2009
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Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
2009
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Iran Sanctions: Options, Opportunities, and Consequences
2009
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Occupying Iraq: A History of the Coalition Provisional Authority
2009
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U.S. Policy in Afghanistan: Basic Questions -- Strategic Choices
2009
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After the Taliban: Nation-Building in Afghanistan
2008
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After the War: Nation-Building from FDR to George W. Bush
2008
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Does America Need A New Grand Strategy?
2008
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Europe's Role in Nation-Building: From the Balkans to the Congo
2008
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RAND Review: Vol. 32, No. 3, Fall 2008
2008
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The Beginner’s Guide to Nation-Building
2007
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A Comparative Evaluation of United Nations Peacekeeping
2007
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Coping with Iran: Confrontation, Containment, or Engagement? A Conference Report
2007
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Ending Afghanistan's Civil War
2007
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Ending Afghanistan's Civil War
2007
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A Guide to Nation Building
2007
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Negotiating with Iran
2007
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Policy Insight, Volume 1, Issue 5, October 2007: Shaping the Policy Priorities for Post-Conflict Reconstruction
2007
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Testimony before the French Commission on Defense and National Security
2007
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U.S. Policy Options in the Iraq Crisis
2007
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Securing Tyrants or Fostering Reform? U.S. Internal Security Assistance to Repressive and Transitioning Regimes
2006
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The RAND History of Nation-Building
2005
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RAND Review: Vol. 29, No. 1, Spring 2005
2005
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The UN's Role in Nation-Building: From the Congo to Iraq
2005
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Aid During Conflict: Interaction Between Military and Civilian Assistance Providers in Afghanistan, September 2001-June 2002
2004
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The Effect of Terrorist Attacks in Spain on Transatlantic Cooperation in the War on Terror
2004
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A Fresh Start for Haiti? Charting Future U.S. Haitian Relations
2004
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Stabilization and Reconstruction Civilian Management Act of 2004
2004
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U.S. Policy Toward Southeast Europe: Unfinished Business in the Balkans
2004
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America's Role in Nation-Building: From Germany to Iraq
2003
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Next Steps in Iraq and Beyond
2003
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RAND Review: Vol. 27, No. 2, Summer 2003
2003