Foreign Policy · The Brookings Institution
Defense policy, security cooperation, and the politics of how the United States works with — and through — its partners abroad.
I'm a Fellow in the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology at the Brookings Institution. My work examines U.S. defense policy, military assistance, irregular warfare, and the security politics of sub-Saharan Africa — drawing on senior-level Pentagon experience evaluating more than three billion dollars in annual U.S. security cooperation programs across more than a hundred countries.
Two books are on the way: War at Arm's Length with Yale University Press, on how America builds effective military partners, and Compromised Coalitions with Penn Press, on the long shadow of post-conflict power sharing in Africa.
Forthcoming
How America Can Build Effective Partners Through Military Assistance
Yale University Press · with Richard Bennet
Richard Bennet and Alexander Noyes offer a systematic look at military assistance in the twenty-first century — examining a frequently deployed but often misunderstood set of tools that allows the United States to leverage partner militaries to achieve national security objectives.
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Forthcoming
The Paradox of Post-Conflict Power Sharing in Africa
University of Pennsylvania Press
Why do power-sharing agreements in post-conflict African states so often produce fragile peace and weakened democracy? Compromised Coalitions by Alexander Noyes traces the long shadow that coalition governments cast on civil-military relations and democratic consolidation.
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