Friday Puzzler: Obama’s Surprising Silence on Morsi’s Grab For Power
By Barbara F. Walter One of the puzzles surrounding Egyptian President Morsi’s very undemocratic move to expand his…
Month: December 2012
12 posts
How a US Election Undermined Global Health
By Will H. Moore American President Barrack Obama will be inaugurated for a second term next month. Meanwhile,…
Postcard from West Point
By Oliver Kaplan Last month I was honored to participate in the 64th annual SCUSA conference (Student Conference…
Friday Puzzler: Rich States, Poor States and Different Types of Violence
By Barbara F. Walter A few years back Claude Berrebi and I attended a conference on terrorism at UC…
Evading Invasion: Syria’s Chemical Weapons and Obama’s Audience Costs
By Erica D. Borghard and Jack Snyder Syria’s recent chemical weapons activity has raised the specter of audience…
Political Violence Thought of the Week
By Erica Chenoweth The Obama administration has recognized the Syrian opposition, rather than the Assad regime, as the…
What Washington Think Tanks Like: Data
By Joseph Young I have a (at least one) secret sin. I enjoy the blog sites/posts called “What…
Will Assad Use His Chemical Weapons?
By Taylor Marvin The risk of chemical weapons use by the Assad regime appears to be increasing. The New…
Friday Puzzler: The Striking Absence of Grey Hair
By Barbara F. Walter Readers should excuse my somewhat frivolous post. I just finished my 40th lecture of…
Invest in Minesweepers
By Andrew Kydd I just attended an interesting forum sponsored by MadPac, the UW Madison pro-Israel group, on…