How Government Tracking Works (We Think) and What Average Citizens Can Do About It
By Barbara F. Walter There’s an enormous amount of misperception, cluelessness, and uncertainty about the implications of carrying a…
Month: January 2014
16 posts
Four Reasons Why Interstate Conflict Scholars Don’t Read Intrastate Work and Why They are Wrong, Part 2
By Christian Davenport and Scott Gates Part 1 of this two-part series is here. Misconception #3 – “The Domestic Conflict…
Weekly Links
By Taylor Marvin Musings on Iraq has a very interesting interview with Michael Spagat on the issues associated with accurately estimating the…
Going to Sochi
By Andrew Kydd There has been a lot of coverage recently discussing the possibility of a terrorist attack at…
Old Wine in an E-bottle (or, The Text that Mistook Itself for a Tactical Shift)
By Christian Davenport On January 24th Barbara Walter wrote a fascinating blog entry entitled “The Text that Changed the…
Peace Prospects for the Philippines
By Oliver Kaplan Over the weekend, a historic peace agreement was finalized between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front…
The Text that Changed the World
By Barbara F. Walter On Tuesday the Ukrainian government sent the following text message to thousands of protesters…
Weekly Links
By Taylor Marvin Burma’s Muslim Rohingya minority and a “countryside of concentration camps.” After the fall of the autocratic regimes that…
Four Reasons Why Interstate Conflict Scholars Don’t Read Intrastate Work and Why They Are Wrong, Part 1
By Christian Davenport and Scott Gates Historically, those of us who rigorously study political conflict and violence have adopted…
Weekly Links
By Taylor Marvin The death of a teenage Syrian photographer freelancing for Reuters raises controversy about the news agency’s…