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Is the Responsibility to Protect Dead? The View From Libya

February 10, 2020
Civil War • Elections • Governance • Interstate War • Nonviolent Resistance • Protest • Terrorism

Our Greatest Hits (So Far)

February 7, 2020
Political Violence at a Glance Greatest Hits
Civil War • Protest

Are We On the Cusp of a Global Wave of Regime Change?

February 6, 2020
Global protest
Elections • Europe • Governance

Dispatch from Kyiv: Who Runs the Political Game?

February 4, 2020
. Independence Square (Maidan) Kyiv in the Fog. Photo by Thomas Zeitzoff
Civil War • Europe • Human Rights • Sub-Saharan Africa • United States

Good Reads

January 31, 2020
Foreign Policy • Middle East • Terrorism • United States

Can the Taliban Trust Trump?

January 30, 2020
Ex-Taliban lay down their guns to the Afghan government. Photo courtesy of isafmedia.
Foreign Policy • Middle East • United States

Trump’s Peace Plan Is a Paradigm Shift for Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

January 28, 2020
Trump shaking hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo courtesy of The White House.
Europe • Latin America • Middle East • North Africa • Sub-Saharan Africa

The Promise and Perils of Postwar Cities

January 24, 2020
“Violence will not come back to my city.” An anti-violence campaign sign in Medellin, Colombia.
Elections • Technology • United States

Countering Online Foreign Influence in 2020 Elections

January 23, 2020
London street art
Interstate War • Middle East • Technology • United States

Iranian Cyberattacks: A Likely Retaliation Scenario?

January 20, 2020
Cyber warfare

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Civil War • Foreign Policy • North Africa

Is the Responsibility to Protect Dead? The View From Libya

February 10, 2020
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Civil War • Foreign Policy • North Africa

Is the Responsibility to Protect Dead? The View From Libya

February 10, 2020

By Lisa Hultman   World leaders met recently in Berlin to discuss solutions for ending the...

Political Violence at a Glance Greatest Hits
Civil War • Elections • Governance • Interstate War • Nonviolent Resistance • Protest • Terrorism

Our Greatest Hits (So Far)

February 7, 2020

  Political Violence At A Glance was created in 2008, to answers questions on the most...

Global protest
Civil War • Protest

Are We On the Cusp of a Global Wave of Regime Change?

February 6, 2020

Guest post by Vilde Lunnan Djuve, Carl Henrik Knutsen, and Tore Wig   When President Omar...

. Independence Square (Maidan) Kyiv in the Fog. Photo by Thomas Zeitzoff
Elections • Europe • Governance

Dispatch from Kyiv: Who Runs the Political Game?

February 4, 2020

By Thomas Zeitzoff I landed in Kyiv a few days before US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived for...

Civil War • Europe • Human Rights • Sub-Saharan Africa • United States

Good Reads

January 31, 2020

By Emily Hencken Ritter and guest contributor Jessica Maves Braithwaite   It’s the new...

Ex-Taliban lay down their guns to the Afghan government. Photo courtesy of isafmedia.
Foreign Policy • Middle East • Terrorism • United States

Can the Taliban Trust Trump?

January 30, 2020

By Navin Bapat and guest contributor Rebecca Best Earlier this month, the Taliban proposed a...

Trump shaking hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo courtesy of The White House.
Foreign Policy • Middle East • United States

Trump’s Peace Plan Is a Paradigm Shift for Resolving the...

January 28, 2020

By Peter Krause   This week, President Trump unveiled his so-called “deal of the century”...

“Violence will not come back to my city.” An anti-violence campaign sign in Medellin, Colombia.
Europe • Latin America • Middle East • North Africa • Sub-Saharan Africa

The Promise and Perils of Postwar Cities

January 24, 2020

Guest post by Kristine Höglund, Emma Elfversson, and Ivan Gusic More than half of the global...

London street art
Elections • Technology • United States

Countering Online Foreign Influence in 2020 Elections

January 23, 2020

Guest post by Jake Shapiro and Kristen DeCaires Social media has proved an essential tool for...

Cyber warfare
Interstate War • Middle East • Technology • United States

Iranian Cyberattacks: A Likely Retaliation Scenario?

January 20, 2020

Guest post by Philipp Lutscher Following the lethal drone strike against the Iranian general Qassem...

Antiwar activists march in Washington DC to protest the US drone attack that killed Qassem Soleimani.
Interstate War • Middle East • United States

Shock and Thaw? The Limited Prospects for US-Iran De-Escalation

January 15, 2020

Guest post by Jonathan M. DiCicco President Trump’s approval of the targeted strike that killed...

Iraqi voters
Elections • Governance • Middle East

What Electoral Reform Means for Iraq

January 14, 2020

Guest post by Ariel I. Ahram The dramatic escalation of US-Iranian tensions affects no country more...

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Barbara F. Walter is a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego. Erica Chenoweth is a political scientist at Harvard Kennedy School. Joe Young is a political scientist at American University. Together, they edit this blog to provide simple, straight-forward analysis of political violence around the world.

In memoriam of our former editor and contributor, Will Moore.

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