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Power Problems • February 11, 2020 

# Greeted as Liberators? Regime Change and Reality 

Join Trevor Thrall and Emma Ashford as we discuss the failures and history of regime change with Ben Denison, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

- [Benjamin Denison bio](https://www.benjamindenison.com)
- Benjamin Denison, [The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: The Failure of Regime-Change Operations](https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/more-things-change-more-they-stay-same),” Policy Analysis 881
- Benjamin Denison, “[Regime Change Rarely Succeeds. When will the U.S. learn?](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/09/regime-change-rarely-succeeds-when-will-us-learn/),” *Washington Post*, January 9, 2020
- Christopher Preble, “[Covert Wars, to What End?](https://warontherocks.com/2019/08/covert-wars-to-what-end/),” *War on the Rocks*, August 7, 2019

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Former Senior Fellow, Defense and Foreign Policy Department, Cato Institute

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Senior Fellow, Stimson Center

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##### Ben Denison 

Nonresident Fellow, Defense Priorities

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