Nonviolent Conflicts in 2014 You May Have Missed Because They Were Not Violent
By Erica Chenoweth Last week, Steven Pinker and Andy Mack wrote an article reassuring Slate readers that the…
Month: December 2014
11 posts
Looking Back on 2014
By Danny Hirschel-Burns It’s been another great year for Political Violence @ a Glance. We won the International…
Senate Report on Torture Seems Unlikely to Lead to Greater Accountability
By Leslie Vinjamuri The executive summary of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s report on torture, released…
The CIA Torture Program: A Case of Can’t Control or Won’t Control?
Guest post by Neil Mitchell The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence tells us that America’s ineffective torture policy…
Friday Puzzler: Fear Not Cuba, Unless You’re Republican
By Barbara F. Walter Republican rancor began as soon as the U.S.’s new policy toward Cuba was announced…
Do Revelations of Injustice Increase Violence?
By Erica Chenoweth Critics of the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s use of…
States of Fear and Killing AFROzilla
By Christian Davenport Over the last few incidents involving the police and African Americans, we have repeatedly been…
The Case for Coalitions of the Unwilling
By Lionel Beehner For months, it was believed that the patchwork of 40-plus countries recruited in the fight…
Who is Doing What in Counter-ISIS Campaign?
By Steve Saideman The Atlantic Council has an interesting graphic about the missions in/over Syria/Iraq. It is a…
Friday Puzzler
By Barbara F. Walter A fascinating study was just published in International Organization by four researchers at UCSD. The study…