Regional Clusters of Conflict
By David E. Cunningham Last week, I posted about the general decline in the level and severity of…
Month: July 2012
22 posts
Syria’s Bad, Bad Chemical Weapons Bluff
By Barbara F. Walter Something strange happened on Monday. The Assad regime came out and publicly declared that they…
Locals Nix the Narcos, and the Narcs
By Oliver Kaplan Community friction is not an interdiction fiction. Today I’m flagging an essay of mine appearing…
Ethnic Conflict via Science Fiction
By Stephen Saideman Since Joseph Young has addressed the use of science fiction for examining political violence, I…
Uncle Sam and Hate Groups
By Will H. Moore “There is always the possibility that a secret police system may become a menace to…
Trends in Armed Conflict: Some Bad (But Mostly Good) News
By David E. Cunningham The Uppsala Conflict Data Project released its annual “Armed Conflict Report” this week. That…
Poliscifi II: War Sanitized
By Joseph Young After receiving generally positive feedback about poliscifi I thought I’d dip my toes in that water…
The 5 Percent Rule and Indiscriminate Killing of Civilians
By Will H. Moore A remarkably successful bombing yesterday in Damascus has me reflecting on Mark Lichbach’s 5 Percent…
Why Assad’s Regime will (Probably) Survive the Damascus Bombing—For Now
By Erica Chenoweth Some commentators have called Wednesday’s deadly attack on top Syrian defense officials a turning point,…
Hate Crimes In The USA
By Will H. Moore Through the first six months of 2012 the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has…