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Ian Lustick | Who benefited?

(02/07/12 5:42am)

Political scientists standardly begin their analyses by asking “cui bono?”—“Who benefits?” Now that the brouhaha surrounding the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions conference held at Penn this weekend is passing into memory, we can answer that question. Who benefited from the conference? The answer is surprising: just about everyone.


Ian Lustick | When the response is the catastrophe

(09/09/11 5:34am)

The attacks on 9/11 were a tremendous insult to our collective psyche and to an American belief in our country’s absolute international security. Nearly 3,000 Americans lost their lives on that day, producing tens of billions of dollars of direct and indirect loses to our economy and devastating effects on the families and friends of those killed by the al Qaeda terrorists. But as heavy as those losses were, they are much less serious than the damage inflicted on our country by its own reaction to those attacks.