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Kelsey D. Atherton

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Soldiers line up before leaving to patrol the streets in Bogotá, Colombia, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019. 
Critical State
Use the force: Part II
In this Jan. 20, 2017, file photo, residents walk through the destruction of the once rebel-held Salaheddine neighborhood in the eastern Aleppo, Syria. 
Rebel reliance: Part II
Democratic Republic of Congo Defense Forces gather in the North Kivu province village of Mukondi, Thursday March 9, 2023.
Critical State
Rebel reliance: Part I
The downhill course stands out from the almost snowless landscape ahead of the first men's downhill training run at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 3, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. 
Critical State
States at dawn: Part II
Elephants in the Chobe National Park in Botswana on March 3, 2013. 
Critical State
An elephant never forgets, sometimes sheds insight
A student shows a piece of ceramic in the archaeological excavation near Salbitz, central Germany, on Friday, April 8, 2011.
States at dawn: Part I
Posters with a message that read in Spanish "Free abortion."
Critical State
Founding fatherhood: Part II
In this Wednesday, June 29, 2011, photo, Henrik Holgersson puts a shoe on his son.
Critical State
Founding fatherhood: Part I
President George W. Bush declares the end of major combat in Iraq as he speaks aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the California coast. But the war dragged on for many years after that.
Critical State
Citizen pain: Part II
All Assam Students Union (AASU) activists hold hands together as they form a human chain to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act on a road in Gauhati, India, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020. Critics say the bill threatens the secular fabric of India. 
Critical State
Citizen pain: Part I
World Congress of Families XI meeting, Budapest Congress Center, May 27, 2017, Budapest, Hungary.
Home front: Part II
American soldiers drive a Bradley fighting vehicle during a joint exercise with Syrian Democratic Forces at the countryside of Deir Ezzor in northeastern Syria, Dec. 8, 2021. 
Home front: Part I
French Barkhane force soldiers who wrapped up a four-month tour of duty in the Sahel board a US Air Force C130 transport plane, leave their base in Gao, Mali, Wednesday June 9, 2021.
Critical State
Trust the process: Part II
Teachers representing the observatory of knowledge, protest against budget cuts for public universities outside the Ministry of Education, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, July 2, 2019. 
Trust the process: Part I
In this Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014, photo, a Free Syrian Army fighter from Shams al-Shamal heads to the front line in Kobani, Syria. 
Critical State
Random rules: Part II
Muslims in Nigeria attend Eid prayers at the Kofar Mata prayer ground in Kano Nigeria, Sunday, May 24, 2020. 
Random rules: Part I
Large icebergs float away as the sun rises near Kulusuk, Greenland, Aug. 16, 2019.
Critical State
Arctic alternatives: Part II
A CH-47F Chinook helicopter sits nestled in the Alaska Range to offload National Park Service equipment, supplies and personnel on Kahiltna Glacier April 27, 2022. 
Critical State
Arctic alternatives: Part I
In this file photo taken Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013, a Nigerian soldier patrols in an armored car, during Eid al-Fitr celebrations, in Maiduguri, Nigeria.
Critical State
Outsourced force: Part I
US President Donald Trump, centre left, and the Prince Charles The Prince of Wales, centre right, join other NATO leaders before posing for a formal group photo
Critical State
Insult to injury: Part II
US President Joe Biden and Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, right, chat as they gather for a group photo at Castle Elmau in Kruen, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, on Sunday, June 26, 2022. 
Critical State
Insult to injury: Part I
In this September 1947 file photo, hundreds of Muslim refugees crowd on top a train leaving New Delhi for Pakistan.
Critical State
State reformation: Part II
Parliament buildings over looks the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland, Oct. 28, 2022. 
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State reformation: Part I
Legionnaires dressed in traditional pioneer outfits and holding hatchets parade during a commemoration ceremony.
Critical State
When putsch comes to shove: Part II
Supporters of Capt. Ibrahim Traore parade waving a Russian flag in the streets of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Oct. 2, 2022. 
Critical State
When putsch comes to shove: Part I
An F/A-18 E launches from the deck during flight training ops aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022, off the Virginia Coast.
Critical State
Left unresolved: Part II
American military personnel wait to greet US Secretary of State Antony Blinken before he boards a plane to travel to Brussels.
Left unresolved: Part I
A giant robotic arm loads pallets full of chainsaws prepared for shipping at the Stihl Inc. production plant in Virginia Beach, Va.
The Italian job: Part II
A view of a courtroom inside Rome's tribunal Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015, during the first hearing of a trial of involving politicians and businessmen.
Critical State
The Italian job: Part I
In this June 12, 2018, file photo, US President Donald Trump, right, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sentosa Island, in Singapore. 
Critical State
Political theater: Part II
Loyalist ephemera depicting British theater in Victorian London.
Critical State
Politcal theater: Part I
Members of community based anti-narcotic campaigners known as The Pat Jasan shout slogans protesting against the government’s ban prohibiting the group from destroying poppy farms in Wai Maw, northern Kachin State, Myanmar, Sunday Feb. 21, 2016. 
Rebel alliance: Part II
Three men huddle around their outrigger while waiting for passengers as flood waters continue to rise due to rain and high tide Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012, in Navotas City, north of Manila, Philippines. 
Rebel alliance: Part I
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol waves a national flag during a ceremony to celebrate Korean Liberation Day from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, at the presidential office square in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. 
Critical State
Imagining empire: Part II
In this March 21, 2011, file photo, a Syrian soldier steps out of the burned courthouse that was set on fire by anti-government protesters in the southern city of Daraa, Syria.
Civil workshopping: Part II
Somali Parliament member Fawzia Yusuf H. Adam discusses with guests at her home in Mogadishu, Somalia Saturday, July 17, 2021.
Critical State
Civil workshopping: Part I
A Mexican gray wolf is seen in Eurkea, Montana, on May 20, 2019.
Critical State
Where wolves: Part II
Afd's top candidate Tino Chrupalla follows the first forecasts on the outcome of the election at the Alternative for Germany party, AfD, election event in Berlin, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021. 
Critical State
Where wolves: Part I
A woman walks with a power plant in the background, in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, March 16, 2022. 
Critical State
Ladder theory: Part II
A woman walks past a new anti-US mural on the wall of former US Embassy portraying the interception of Global Hawk US drone by Iran in Persian Gulf, after an unveiling ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019. 
Critical State
Ladder theory: Part I
Roberto Marquez of Dallas adds a flower a makeshift memorial at the site where officials found dozens of people dead in an abandoned semitrailer containing suspected migrants, Wednesday, June 29, 2022, in San Antonio. 
Critical State
Absurd lines: Part II
In this photo from 2019, Gasan, a 25-year-old Syrian, gives a hair cut to 31-year-old Ali from Baghdad, Iraq, in the overcrowded Moria refugee and migrant camp, Lesbos island, Greece.
Critical State
Absurd lines: Part I
A police officer guards the area as investigators comb the site where more than a dozen people were believed to have been gunned down by armed men on Sunday, in San Jose de Gracia, head of the municipality of Marcos Castellanos, in Michoacan state, Mexico
Critical State
Troubled geography: Part II
In this Wednesday, April 7, 2021 file photo, a firework explodes as Nationalist and Loyalist rioters clash with one another at the peace wall on Lanark Way in West Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Critical State
Troubled geography: Part I
In this Dec. 5, 2016, file photo, Syrian army soldiers fire their weapons during a battle with rebel fighters at the Ramouseh front line, east of Aleppo, Syria. 
Critical State
Civil warcraft: Part II
Relatives and friends of Jacobo Alberto Perez, one of the five young people who was killed by unidentified gunmen last Saturday, carry his coffin during his funeral in Buga, Colombia, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. 
Critical State
Civil warcraft: Part I
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the media during a joint press statement as part of a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Monday, May 2, 2022. 
Critical State
Democracy, interrupted: Part II
VOX party leader Santiago Abascal applauds supporters before making a speech during a rally by the extreme right wing party VOX in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, March 19, 2022. 
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Democracy, interrupted: Part I
Flowers lay on a symbolic casket that represents a victims of Colombia's civil conflict, and carries the Spanish words: "Saul. I don't forget. We miss you," at Bolivar square in Bogotá, Colombia, Monday, April 9, 2018. 
Critical State
Discourse of justice: Part II
Protesters hold a banner with a message that reads in Spanish: "Duque, stop the massacres," directed at Colombia's President Ivan Duque, as they march to Bolivar Square in Bogotá, Colombia, Wednesday, May 12, 2021.
Critical State
Discourse of justice: Part I
Israeli armor moves along northern point of Syria during the Yom Kippur War of October 1973.
Critical State
Unmaking modern strategy: Part II
The tail of a missile sticks out in a residential area in Yahidne, near of Dnipro, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. 
Unmaking modern strategy: Part I
A Ukrainian serviceman walks amid destroyed Russian tanks in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 6, 2022. 
Critical State
Managing the aftermath: Part II
A man carries an elderly woman as people continue to leave Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. 
Critical State
Managing the aftermath: Part I
Long exposure photo shows cars and trucks driving on a highway in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. 
Critical State
The company and the state: Part II
Lord and Lady Bradourne during their state drive through Calcutta, on Nov. 28, 1937. 
Critical State
The company and the state: Part I
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a ceremony marking the start of the judicial year at the Supreme Court in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 27, 2022.
Archetypes of autocracy: Part II
Chinese President Xi Jingping speaks during the opening session of the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogues at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Monday, June 6, 2016. 
Critical State
Archetypes of autocracy: Part I
Honor guard soldiers carry the coffin of Vasile Raduna, seen in the photo on the right, during the ceremony for the repatriation his and of Corp. Ciprian-Stefan Polschi's body from Afghanistan, in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. 
Critical State
Media matters: Part II
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid shakes hand with a journalist after his first news conference, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. 
Media matters: Part I