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Ian Shapiro

Ian Shapiro is Sterling professor of political science at Yale University where he also serves as Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. He has written widely and influentially on democracy, justice, and the methods of social inquiry. He is the author of Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror (Princeton University Press, 2007)

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After occupation: a containment strategy for Iraq

What can the United States salvage from the wreckage of Iraq? There’s time for a fresh policy that works, says Ian Shapiro.