Sean Duggan is a Research Assistant for the National Security team at the Center for American Progress. He works primarily on military affairs and other related U.S. foreign policy and international security issues. Duggan has been published in the Johns Hopkins University’s Transatlantic Relations Journal and Political Science and Politics Magazine. He co-authored the report, "Caught off Guard: The Link Between Our National Security and Our National Guard" (May 2007). Before joining the Center in 2006, Duggan spent a year studying in Cadiz, Spain and graduated from the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington in 2005 with a degree in foreign policy, diplomacy, peace and security studies. Sean is a native of Seattle, Washington.

Blog Entries by Sean Duggan

State Of Denial In Afghanistan

Posted February 1, 2008 | 05:06 PM (EST)


The overall situation in Afghanistan, like that of Iraq last year, is grave and deteriorating. Violence is up by 27% in the country since 2006, there were a total of 140 suicide bombings throughout 2007 (as compared to 5 between 2001 and 2005), poppy growth is at an all time...

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