How Mugabe Holds Power
Guest post by Noorjit Sidhu This piece is the second of two written for Claire Adida’s UC San Diego…
Month: July 2013
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Why Was CAR President Francois Bozizé Recently Deposed, and Why Now?
Guest post by Bob Bahr This piece was one of two written for Claire Adida’s UC San Diego undergraduate course “Contention…
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By Taylor Marvin Russia pushes ahead with the delivery of advanced surface-to-air missiles to the Assad regime (via Justin…
How Would Obama’s Syria Policy Benefit from Hindsight?
By Taylor Marvin The conflict in Syria has now killed over 100,000 people, and the war appears likely to…
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By Taylor Marvin Violence targeting LBGTI rights advocates in Cameroon continues. A Syrian activist living in Aleppo reports from…
Warlordism and Control in Syria
By Erica Chenoweth Ben Hubbard’s article in last Thursday’s New York Times has a few interesting insights. Assad…
Why Warn Hezbollah about an Impending Attack by Al Qaeda?
By Erica Chenoweth This week it was revealed that the CIA warned Hezbollah, through official Lebanese intermediaries, of…
On the Decriminalization of Private Violence
By Andrew Kydd The acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin highlights an interesting change…
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By Taylor Marvin In Egypt, the police and Army made little effort to quell fatal street clashes, Human Rights…
More Challenges to Women’s Representation in Afghanistan
By Sarah Bush Bad news about women’s rights in Afghanistan — as if we needed any more of…