David Gibbs

David N. Gibbs is professor of history at the University of Arizona, with a courtesy appointment in Africana Studies. He has published extensively on sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, and Afghanistan, as well as the United States. His previous books include First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia (Vanderbilt, 2009); and The Political Economy of Third World Intervention: Mines, Money, and US Policy in the Congo Crisis (University of Chicago, 1991).” He is currently working on his fourth book, to be entitled: Guns, Butter, and the Politics of Permanent War: America at the End of the Cold War, 1986-2001.