Weekly Links
By Taylor Marvin In Maiduguri, the northeast Nigerian city that is Boko Haram’s “hometown,” unemployment and fear feed instability among…
Month: May 2014
13 posts
There Will Be No Civil War in Ukraine, And Putin Knows It
By Barbara F. Walter Last Wednesday Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that Ukraine “is as close to…
Why Can’t Democracies Settle Civil Wars?
Guest post by Joakim Kreutz What effects will the outcome of the upcoming Colombian presidential elections (May 25th) have…
The Crimea Crisis and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Guest post by Ehud Eiran A Russian-French confrontation in the Holy Land in the middle of the 19th century…
García Márquez’ Magical Realism: It’s Real
By Oliver Kaplan Last month, the world lost literary giant Gabriel García Márquez, whom Colombian President Juan Manuel…
The Trajectory of Public Opinion about Torture
By Will H. Moore In a forthcoming American Political Science Review article, Chris Fariss reports that: The standard of…
Weekly Links
By Taylor Marvin Against the background of a weekend “vote” for independence in eastern Ukraine and calls for annexation by…
Boko Haram Is Winning, and You Are Helping
By Will H. Moore Boko Haram (BH) has had a banner couple of weeks, and the western press…
Weekly Links
By Taylor Marvin On the mass kidnapping of Nigerian schoolgirls by the insurgent group Boko Haram, a crime that…
Why Kidnap Girls?
By Barbara F. Walter One of the strategies that Boko Haram has pursued in its attempt to overthrow the…