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PRISM Volume 3, Issue 3

To view PRISM Volume 3, Issue 3, click the following link:  PRISM Vol. 3 No 3

Features

Military Support for Democracy
by Dennis C. Blair

Concept Failure? COIN, Counterinsurgency, and Strategic Theory
by Colin S. Gray

Silver Bullet or Time Suck? Revisiting the Role of Interagency Coordination in Complex Operations

by Andrea Barbara Baumann

Finding Innovation in State-building: Moving Beyond the Orthodox Liberal Model
by Mark Sedra

Capability Traps in Development: How Initiatives to Improve Administrative Systems Succeed at Failing

by Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock, and Matt Andrews

Lessons from MoDA: Continuing the Conversation on How to Advise Institution-building
by Nadia Gerspacher and Adrian Shtuni

Recognizing Systems in Afghanistan: Lessons Learned and New Approaches to Operational Assessments
by William P. Upshur, Jonathan W. Roginski, and David J. Kilcullen

In Somalia, Kenya Risks Death by a Thousand Cuts
by Lesley Anne Warner

The Opportunity Cost of Security
by Dov S. Zakheim

From the Field

Village Stability Operations and Afghan Local Police
by Robert Hulslander and Jake Spivey

Interview

An Interview with Álvaro Uribe Vélez

Book Reviews

Hybrid Warfare and Transnational Threats: Perspectives for an Era of Persistent Conflict
Reviewed by John Arquilla

Victory for Hire: Private Security Companies’ Impact on Military Effectiveness
Reviewed by T.X. Hammes 
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