Research Questions What is the evidence for the existence of golden hours?... What tasks are essential in the earliest weeks and months of an intervention to take advantage of golden hours to stabilize host nations?... How should the United States organize itself to seize golden hours?...

The days since Kabul fell into the hands of the Taliban have seen a steady stream of postmortems on the United States' involvement in Afghanistan.... Seeking to preempt any repeat episodes, it must choose between occupying permanently, reinvading periodically, or committing to help build a minimally competent successor regime, ideally allowing it to leave behind a society at peace with itself and its neighbors.... He has served as U.S. Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Kosovo, Bosnia

Research Questions If the United States and the local partner have different priorities for governance and capacity building, under what circumstances can the United States shape the partner's preferences, with what policy levers, and for how long?... The U.S. experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan and the resulting U.S. military doctrine emphasize the need for the United States to consolidate the gains it has realized on the battlefield.... Both U.S. decisionmakers and a variety of analysts have

Research Questions What are the trends across time, and patterns across conflict cases, in refugee return?... How do the conditions in home countries factor into refugees' decisions to return, and how do conditions in host countries factor into refugees' decisions to leave?... What roles do national, regional, and global stakeholders play in facilitating returns?...

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