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From Ukraine to the South China Sea, the fait accompli reappears time and again as the strategy of choice to challenge the status quo, imposing losses in a calculated gamble that victims will relent rather than escalate. The Stimson Center is pleased to host Dan Altman, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University, who argues that the fait accompli deserves more attention than it receives. Altman will chart the rise of the fait accompli by surveying the modern history of territorial aggression. He will explain why the concept is so useful for understanding recent conflicts in Crimea, …read more
Source: Stimson Center