Foreign Policy Essay
What Does Arming an Insurgency in Ukraine Mean?
Research on insurgencies holds lessons for how to aid Ukraine, but assessing what policies are best will depend on how the conflict proceeds.
Alexandra Stark is a senior researcher at New America. She holds a doctorate from Georgetown University and was previously a fellow at the Middle East Initiative of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a Minerva/Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
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Research on insurgencies holds lessons for how to aid Ukraine, but assessing what policies are best will depend on how the conflict proceeds.
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