{"id":40671,"date":"2013-07-30T10:50:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T14:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/?p=40671"},"modified":"2013-07-31T14:14:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T18:14:26","slug":"ranjit-singh-coauthors-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2013\/07\/30\/ranjit-singh-coauthors-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranjit Singh Coauthors Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma;\">Ranjit Singh, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs,&nbsp;coauthored with U.S. Navy Commander Youssef Aboul Enein an article titled &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/blog\/after-checkmate-the-use-and-limits-of-the-chess-analogy-regarding-syria\" target=\"_blank\">After Checkmate: The Use and Limits of the Chess Analogy Regarding Syria<\/a>,&rdquo; which appeared in the <em>Small Wars Journal<\/em>. The article examines frequent assumptions in the use of the chess analogy to describe the risks and benefits of intervention in Syria, and&nbsp;cultural differences in how the game is played.&nbsp;The article germinated from&nbsp;discussions that followed Dr. Singh&rsquo;s formal&nbsp;lecture on &ldquo;Political Islam and the<\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma;\"> Arab Spring,&rdquo; delivered&nbsp;in May as part of the ongoing National Security Lecture series hosted at UMW&rsquo;s Dahlgren campus.<\/span><\/div><div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranjit Singh, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs,&nbsp;coauthored with U.S. Navy Commander Youssef Aboul Enein an article titled &ldquo;After Checkmate: The Use and Limits of the Chess Analogy Regarding Syria,&rdquo; which appeared in the Small Wars Journal. The article examines frequent assumptions in the use of the chess analogy to describe the risks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2561,"featured_media":4076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[793],"class_list":["post-40671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-professional-notes","tag-rsingh","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2561"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}