I’m
one of the people Sen. John Walsh plagiarized from - The Washington Post:
By Sean M. Lynn-Jones July 24
Sean M. Lynn-Jones is editor of the quarterly journal
International Security and a research associate at the Belfer Center at the
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
"On Wednesday afternoon, a flurry of phone calls and
e-mails informed me that Sen. John Walsh (D-MT) had apparently
included—verbatim and without attribution—several pages of a 1998 paper of mine
in a work he submitted to the U.S. Army War College. Walsh’s paper, which also
failed to properly reference the work of others, was one of the requirements
for the master’s degree he received from the War College in 2007."
Even in 2007, my paper, “Why
the United States Should Spread Democracy,” was out of date. I wrote it in
1998, when the Clinton administration was embracing the strategy of spreading
democracy.
By 2007, U.S. interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan had, to
put it mildly, given democracy promotion a bad name.
The paper needed significant revisions to address what had
happened in those two countries, respond to criticisms, and cite the most recent
literature. Nevertheless, it remained online and was often the most viewed
publication on the Web site of Harvard’s
Belfer Center. ...
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