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Monica Duffy Toft

Tufts University

Monica Duffy Toft is a professor of international politics and director of the Center for Strategic Studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
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Defense One Radio, Ep. 202: The known perils of regime change

A scholar of civil wars warns against repeating the past mistakes from U.S. military interventions abroad.

  • Ben Watson and Monica Duffy Toft
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Military force can topple a dictator, but it cannot create political authority or legitimacy

Trump is the latest to reach for a military solution of the kind that rarely produces durable peace. 

  • Monica Duffy Toft, The Conversation