Committee for the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy

Jason M.K. Lyall, jason.lyall@yale.edu (Yale University)

Following this year’s theme of “politics in hard times,” CAMOS welcomes panel and paper submissions on a broad range of topics. These include (but are not limited to): the impact of economic conditions on war onset, dynamics, or termination; the sources of military effectiveness and force employment in war; the causes and effectiveness of intervention policy; the origins and effectiveness of terrorism, as well as the sources of terrorist recruitment; non-traditional conflict triggers, including refugee flows, environmental scarcity, and NGO involvement in conflict settings; the role of religion and ethnicity in shaping war onset and patterns of violence within conflicts; the sources of subnational political violence such as riots, mass killing, and genocide; and the relationship between coercive and non-coercive strategies in a counterinsurgency or reconstruction environment.

We especially welcome panels that draw on both scholars and practitioners and that have clear policy relevance. Panels and papers that utilize multiple methods and that are explicitly comparative in focus are also particularly welcome.