Israel and Hamas Are Both Just Winging It
By Erica Chenoweth Israel is more than three weeks into Operation Protective Edge. With over 1328 Palestinians and…
Month: July 2014
15 posts
Do Regional Human Rights Courts Make a Difference?
By Will H. Moore Do the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR)…
Graphing the Words in the News Over Time
By Will H. Moore Last week, The New York Times made public a fun tool, Chronicle, that makes it easy…
Weekly Links
By Danny Hirschel-Burns The conflict in Gaza has renewed focus on Israel’s military strategy. Zack Beauchamp demonstrates that…
Is War Really on the Decline? And if so, Why?
By Lionel Beehner AlexAK, who commented on our “Would Someone Please Explain This to Me?” post, asked this…
Measurement of Regime Type Effects on Police Focus
By Erica Chenoweth This post, part of our “Would Someone Please Explain This to Me?” series, is in…
The Blame Game
By Andrew Kydd The downing of a Malaysian airliner over eastern Ukraine with the loss of almost 300…
Weekly Links
By Danny Hirschel-Burns Writing well in advance of yesterday’s Israeli ground invasion of Gaza, The Jewish Daily Forward…
Why Is ISIS the First Islamist Rebel Group to Claim to Resurrect the Caliphate?
By Allison Beth Hodgkins In response to our Would Someone Please Explain This to Me? post, commenter Chris C wrote: Why…
The Paradox of 2014
By Erica Chenoweth In recent weeks, a number of people have asked me whether I think we’re headed for…