Assistant Professor of Government
(on leave for the fall 2017 semester)
belias@bowdoin.edu
207-798-4354
Government and Legal Studies
Hubbard Hall - 203
Personal website: barbaraelias.org
"The likelihood of local allies free-riding : Testing economic theories of alliances in US counterinsurgency interventions," Cooperation and Conflict, April 11, 2017
"Making Maliki and Karzai: How Washington Produced Unhelpful Allies in the Middle East," Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, June 27, 2014
“America’s Missing Leverage in Afghanistan and Pakistan: a Structural Analysis,” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 8, September 20, 2013, pp. 1392-1408
Foreign Affairs - The Council on Foreign Relations, foreignaffairs.com:
"The Legend of Mullah Omar,” September 1, 2015
"The Pakistani Taliban's Coming Divide," February 2, 2012
"Know Thine Enemy - Why the Taliban Cannot Be Flipped" November 2, 2009
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