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Profile
Sarah Sewall teaches international affairs at the Harvard
Kennedy School of Government, where she also directs the Program on
National Security and Human Rights. She led the Obama Transitions
National Security Agency Review process in 2008. During the Clinton
Administration, Sewall served as the first Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Assistance.
From 1983-1996, she served as Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to
Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell on the Democratic Policy
Committee and the Senate Arms Control Observer Group. Before
joining Harvard, Sewall was at the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences where she edited The United States and the
International Criminal Court (2002). Her more recent
publications include the introduction to the University of Chicago
Edition of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency
Manual (2007) and, with John White, Parameters of
Partnership: U.S. Civil-Military Relations in the 21st Century
(2009). She is a member of the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense
Policy Board Advisory Committee and the Center for Naval Analyses
Defense Advisory Committee. She graduated from Harvard College and
Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
Courses
Not Offered
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IGA-309
American Warfare and the Humanitarian Ethic: Law, Norms and Practice
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IGA-316
Stategies and Politics of Complex US Military Operations.
Media Expertise
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Research
For a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.
Selected Publication Citations:
- Academic Journals
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Sewall, Sarah. "America After the Elections: A Strategy of
Conservation." Survival 50.5 (October 2008): 79-98.
- Book Chapters
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Sewall, Sarah. "The United States and Multilateral Peace
Operations." Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy: Ambivalent
Engagement. Ed. Shepard Forman and Stewart Patrick. Lynne
Rienner, 2002, 191-224.
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Sewall, Sarah. "Introduction to the University of Chicago Press
edition. A Radical Field Manual." The U.S. Army/Marine Corps
Counterinsurgency Field Manual. Ed. United States Army and
United States Marine Corps. University of Chicago Press, 2007,
xxi-xliii.
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Sewall, Sarah. "Leading Warriors in the Long War." Military
Leadership: In Pursuit of Excellence. Ed. William E. Rosenbach.
Westview Press, 2009, 121-132.
- HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series
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Sewall, Sarah. "A Strategy of Conservation: American Power and the
International System." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series
RWP08-028, May 2008.
- Magazine and Newspaper Articles
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Sewall, Sarah. "Crafting a New Counterinsurgency Doctrine."
Foreign Service Journal (September 2007): 33-40.
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Sewall, Sarah. "Technology's Power to Narrow Our View." TIME
Magazine. May 22, 2008.
- Op-Eds
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Sewall, Sarah. "He Wrote the Book: Can He Follow It?" Washington
Post, February 25, 2007.
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Sewall, Sarah. "A Heavy Hand in Afghanistan." Boston Globe,
June 15, 2007.
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Sewall, Sarah. "Ethics on the Battlefield." San Francisco
Chronicle, July 1, 2007.
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Sewall, Sarah. "Just How Is This Drawdown Supposed to Work,
Anyway?" Niemanwatchdog.org, January 4, 2008.
- Research Papers/Reports
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Sewall, Sarah, ed. "Implementing the Rule of Law and Human Rights
in Stability Operations." Project on the Means of Intervention,
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and U.S. Army Judge Advocate
General's Legal Center, September 25-26, 2006.
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Sewall, Sarah, ed. "Counterinsurgency in Iraq and Implications of
Irregular Warfare for the United States Government." Carr Center
National Security and Human Rights Program: Project on the Means of
Intervention Workshop Papers Volume 4: 2005-2006, January 2007.
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Sewall, Sarah, ed. "Learning and Integration: Escalation of Force
Procedures and Traffic Control Point Operations." Project on the
Means of Intervention, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and U.S.
Army PKSOI, with U.S. Army CALL, March 26-27, 2007.
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Sewall, Sarah, and John P. White. "Parameters of Partnership: U.S.
Civil-Military Relations in the 21st Century." The Harvard Kennedy
School Project on Civil-Military Relations, 2009.