The Sanctions Boomerang
Guest post by Branislav L. Slantchev Ever since Russia escalated the crisis in Ukraine with the annexation of…
Month: April 2014
19 posts
Activists, Authorities and the Problem of Telling the Difference
By Christian Davenport Discussion about who killed Anna Mae Aquash of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s…
Syria and the International Criminal Court
By Leslie Vinjamuri Last week, pressure to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court resurfaced, this time with…
Weekly Links
By Taylor Marvin US efforts to train the Malian military in its fight against Islamist militants did not prevent disasters…
Coding Crisis in Civil-Military Relations
By Steve Saideman Tom Ricks argued recently that there is a fundamental problem in American civil-military relations: “We…
Doing Well by Doing Bad
Guest post by Reed M. Wood Most of us like to believe that, as in the movies, the team…
Why Bother to Vote in Fraudulent Elections?
By Barbara F. Walter Last week I posed a puzzle that asked two questions: First, why would voter turnout…
Weekly Links
By Taylor Marvin The major story of the week was a move by the Ukrainian government to forcibly evict…
The Worst Kind of Torture
By Joseph Young Nearly all states torture. Kingdoms, personalist and military dictatorships, and even democracies use this tool…
Use the Force, Brazilian Protestors?
By Oliver Kaplan This post contains spoilers for the original Star Wars trilogy. At this summer’s World Cup soccer…