Meeting

CFR Fellows' Book Launch Series Guest Event With Stephen Biddle

Monday, April 19, 2021
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Speaker
Stephen Biddle

Adjunct Senior Fellow for Defense Policy, Council on Foreign Relations; Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University 

Presider
James M. Lindsay

Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Council on Foreign Relations

CFR Fellows' Book Launch and National Security and Defense Program

Stephen Biddle discusses his new book, Nonstate Warfare, a comprehensive account of combat methods and military rationale which offers a new understanding for wartime military behavior of armed nonstate actors.

The CFR Fellows’ Book Launch series highlights new books by CFR fellows.

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