Assistant Professor, Social Sciences, Minerva University
Mark Kukis is a former non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute and Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at the Minerva University, where he teaches government. He is the author of Voices from Iraq: A People’s History, 2003-2009 (2011). The book is an oral history of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq as told entirely by Iraqis. Kukis spent a decade as a journalist before joining academia, including three years covering the US occupation of Iraq for Time magazine from 2006 to 2009. He also covered the early phase of the US intervention in Afghanistan as a freelance journalist and, prior to that, served as a White House correspondent for United Press International. His writings have also appeared in The New Republic and Salon, among other places.
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War and peace
Unrest in your backyard
Rich nations with strong governments can no longer assume that political violence is a problem for other, poorer countries
Mark Kukis
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War and peace
War once helped build nations, now it destroys them
Mark Kukis
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History
The myth of victory
War isn’t like it used to be. Victory is more elusive, and a strong military doesn’t count as much
Mark Kukis