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…
The Chinese Government is Losing the Tech War Against Hong Kong Protesters
By Barbara F. Walter This past week the Chinese Government took a cue from Putin’s playbook. Just as…
Middle East Misconceptions That Are Messing Up US Foreign Policy
By Barbara F. Walter Violence in the Middle East has a way of tapping into one-dimensional reactions from…
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…
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…