Weekly Links
By Danny Hirschel-Burns In light of protests, and seemingly a coup in Burkina Faso, The Wall Street Journal offers some…
Month: October 2014
12 posts
Research Under Fire: Researcher Trauma and Conflict Studies
Guest post by Cyanne Loyle and Alicia Simoni Political scientists debate whether the world is getting more violent or…
Predicting Government Violence to Improve Theory and Practice
Guest post by Daniel W. Hill Jr. and Zachary M. Jones Why do some governments generally respect the fundamental…
Ride on the Peace Bandwagon
By Allison Beth Hodgkins There are no commemorative coins marking the twentieth anniversary of Jordan’s 1994 peace treaty…
Measuring, “Denying” & “Trivializing” Deaths in the Case of Rwanda
By Christian Davenport Reading “The Reign of ‘Terror” by Tomis Kapitan in the New York Times on October…
Turkey, Syria, and the Dormant Dilemmas of Sovereignty
Guest post by Gabriel Mitchell and Ariel I. Ahram Since Turkey’s decision to support Bashar al-Assad’s ouster in 2011,…
The Needs of the Victims
Guest post by Javier Argomaniz and Orla Lynch Last June, the UN General Assembly carried out their latest…
The Relevance of International Security and…Some Pictures of Kitties
By Joe Young Thomas Ricks recently opined in a Foreign Policy piece how irrelevant most of political science…
What Young Ukrainians Are Fighting For
By Vera Mironova and guest contributor Sam Whitt Answering the Call to Arms in Ukraine What compels ordinary…
Canaries in the Coal Mine: What the “End of Christianity in Iraq” Tells Us About the State of Governance in the Arab World
By Allison Beth Hodgkins Last month there was a depressing article in the Washington Post entitled “Christianity in…