Did Monetary Forces Help Turn the Tide in Iraq?

Berck, Peter; Lipow, Jonathan

doi:10.1080/14751798.2010.503100

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“…For example, Berck and Lipow suggest the 300% real appreciation in the value of the Iraqi Dinar (engendered by oil price appreciation and a flood of coalition aid) that took place between 2003 and 2008 may have played an important role in damaging the financial position of insurgent organizations such as Al Qaida in Iraq and the Mahdi Army -organizations heavily dependent on foreign funding. 20 With a major portion of Taliban funding coming from wealthy foreign donors and earnings from the heroin trade, a major appreciation of the currency could conceivably place similar financial pressure on Taliban forces.…”

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Can Afghanistan avoid the Natural Resource Curse?

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Over a 20-year period, Peter Berck and Jonathan Lipow coauthored six papers that focused on defense and national security, including three that can be regarded as influential contributions. The first of the important contributions responded to the argument that conscription is a suboptimal use of human resources and showed that conscription can be more efficient than an all-volunteer army under many, and perhaps even most, circumstances. The second contended that the real appreciation of the Iraqi dinar relative to other currencies, rather than the “surge” of coalition forces to Iraq in 2008–2009, explained the defeat of the insurgency, because the insurgents depended on foreign funding. The third showed that African-Americans were far less likely to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and explored various explanations for this—concluding that the most likely cause was not racial discrimination within the military but continued racial discrimination in the civilian labor market.

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Trade, tariffs and terrorism

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Did Monetary Forces Help Turn the Tide in Iraq?

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Can Afghanistan avoid the Natural Resource Curse?

Can Afghanistan avoid the Natural Resource Curse?

Challenging Conventional Wisdom in Defense and National Security

Trade, tariffs and terrorism

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