..., that being when confronted by a strong Sudanese Peoples Liberation Move- ment and Army (SPLM/A) and an energetic international coalition led by the United States. The result was the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), a detailed document that ended a twenty-two-year war between the NIF gov- ernment...

... in Kosovo and elsewhere, I believe vehe- mently in the UN as an institution, particularly in the wake of having spent seven intellectually and emotionally devastating months associated with the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). The CPA was widely perceived to be internally incoherent...

... Bremer’s Change in Direction In May 2003, the United States again made its own decisions about who would lead Iraq during reconstruction. L. Paul Bremer, a retired diplomat, was appointed as the head of a new entity called the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) and given the mandate...

... in Iraq, its offer was rejected by both the Kurdish and Arab members of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). 2. I first used this term in Turkey-Iran Relations, 1979 – 2004: Revolution, Ideology, War, Coups and Geopolitics (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2004), 207 – 11. Also see Robert Olson...