Dispatch from Warsaw & the World Summit of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
By Erica Chenoweth Last week, I was in Warsaw attending the World Summit of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. A…
Month: October 2013
17 posts
Weekly Links
By Taylor Marvin Recalling Lionel Beehner’s recent post, more on the Syrian refugee crisis: the historic scale of the humanitarian…
Hedging by Rejection: Divining Saudi Arabia’s Surprise UN Security Council About Face for Clues of Regional Realignments
By Allison Beth Hodgkins In a region where everything seems to be standing on its head and doing…
Learning from Afghanistan: Multilateralism is Hard
By Steve Saideman The old saying is that success has a thousand fathers but that failure is an orphan.…
How To Beat A Bribe in Mexico City
By Barbara F. Walter I recently read an excellent article about bribery and discrimination in Latin America. In…
Germany and NATO Reform? Please
By Steve Saideman Germany gets far more grief than it should for under-performing in Afghanistan. Italy, Hungary, Turkey…
Weekly Links
By Taylor Marvin The dilemma of Syria’s Alawites, many of whom dislike Assad for drawing Syria into the destructive civil…
The Four Things We Know About How Civil Wars End (and What This Tells Us About Syria)
By Barbara F. Walter The Obama Administration continues to insist that it would like to see a diplomatic solution…
Why Not Call Iraq a Civil War?
By Erica Chenoweth Another suicide truck bomber blew himself up in northern Iraq today. Having noticed an awful…
Weekly Links
By Taylor Marvin Despite recent progress, UN chief Ban Ki-moon warns that efforts to catalog and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons…