How Can ISIS Be Degraded or Destroyed?
Guest post by Brian J. Phillips President Obama has repeatedly said the goal of airstrikes against ISIS is…
Month: September 2014
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Weekly Links
By Danny Hirschel-Burns In the Monkey Cage, Kerry F. Crawford, Amelia Hoover Green, and Sarah E. Parkinson challenge the…
Competition Within Terrorist “Industry”: Notes From the Field in Syria and Yemen
By Vera Mironova For the last 20 years Al-Qaeda has enjoyed the status of being one of the…
Peacekeeping Has Worked, But Is It Working now?
By Lise Morjé Howard When I first started studying peacekeeping some 20 years ago, the popular view was that…
Is Scotland Loss Really a Win?
Guest post by Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham Voters in Scotland rejected becoming an independent nation on Thursday (55.3% no…
Weekly Links
By Danny Hirschel-Burns Georgetown professor Charles King writes in the Monkey Cage that the social inertia of Novorossiya, the break-away…
Sexual and Ethnic Violence and the Construction of the Islamic State
Guest post by Ariel Ahram The protection of women, children, and religious minorities stand prominently among the reasons President…
What Was England Thinking?
By Barbara F. Walter One of the first things you learn in Management 101 is that you don’t…
The US Won’t Declare War on ISIS
By Tanisha M. Fazal Following President Obama’s recent address laying out a strategy deploying airstrikes and advisers to…
Dissecting Obama’s Four-Point Strategy Against ISIL
By Sara Bjerg Moller On Wednesday evening, President Obama took to the airwaves to announce his much-awaited strategy…