Democracy and Militarism
By Will H. Moore Last November I posted here about Yagil Levy’s new book, Israel’s Death Hierarchy: Casualty Aversion in…
Month: February 2013
16 posts
Resolving the Syria Crisis: Conference Report
By Oliver Kaplan and Erica Chenoweth On January 10-11, the University of Denver hosted “Resolving the Syria Crisis,”…
Ongoing R2P Violations in Syria Highlight the Urgency of Global Governance Reform
Guest post by Eamon Aloyo Bashar al-Assad’s military and some opposition rebels have committed, and will likely continue committing,…
Friday Puzzler: Twitter and War
By Barbara F. Walter Back in November, the Israeli Defense Forces fundamentally changed how governments chose to communicate…
How Not to Get Published in the Iran Review
By Andrew Kydd Occasionally an Iranian journalist sends me an email asking my opinion on various foreign policy…
Can We Please Have Useful Reporting?
By Will H. Moore Over the weekend National Public Radio broadcast a story about rebel gains in Syria.…
Friday Puzzler: The Silence of the Drones
By Barbara F. Walter The most recent national survey by the Pew Research Center finds that over fifty…
Political Violence Thought of the Week
By Erica Chenoweth In his Tuesday State of the Union address, President Obama made a revealing comment about his…
Feels Like the Third Time*
By Andrew Kydd North Korea has detonated its third nuclear device and its first to convincingly split some…
When Democratization Produces Drug Violence
By Will H. Moore Why has violence surrounding the drug trade in Mexico spiked so much since the…