Sam Ratner
Sam Ratner writes The World's Critical State newsletter.
He is also a contributing editor Zitamar News and graduate a of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
Sam writes about civil wars, statebuilding, southern Africa and progressive security policy.
Recent Stories
Critical State
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June 08, 2021
Critical State, our foreign policy newsletter, takes a deep dive into the current state of the literature on democratic peace and the conflicts that democracy might help prevent.
Critical State
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June 01, 2021
Critical State, our foreign policy newsletter, takes a deep dive into the ethics of studying wartime sexual violence.
Critical State
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May 25, 2021
This week, Critical State, our foreign policy newsletter, takes a deep dive into the state of the literature on sexual violence in conflict.
Critical State
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May 18, 2021
Critical State, our foreign policy newsletter, takes a deep dive into how rebels gain access to raw resources to sell on the open market, and how those business considerations create their own security logics.
Critical State
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May 11, 2021
Critical State, our foreign policy newsletter, takes a deep dive into new research on how rebels negotiate the international business world, with a focus on Democratic Republic of Congo.
Critical State
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May 04, 2021
Critical State, our foreign policy newsletter, takes a deep dive into the weaponization of water.
Critical State
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April 27, 2021
This week, Critical State takes a deep dive into new research on the objects that make up the world of political violence.
Critical State
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April 20, 2021
This week, Critical State, our foreign policy newsletter, takes a deep dive into the challenges of assigning blame when it comes to natural disasters and climate change.
Critical State
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April 13, 2021
Critical State, our foreign policy newsletter, takes a deep dive into new research on how blame gets apportioned in international politics, and how that affects unstable security situations.
Military
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April 06, 2021
This week, Critical State, our foreign policy newsletter, takes a deep dive into recent research on the state of US opinion about gender in foreign policy in the years since combat units were integrated.
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