Why Are There No Nuclear Weapons in South America?
By Taylor Marvin As part of its occasional ‘Would Someone Please Explain This to Me” series, Political Violence…
Irregular Forces in Ukraine
Guest post by Sabine C. Carey and Neil J. Mitchell With the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17,…
Israel’s Strategic Goal
Guest post by Jeremy Pressman Part of me is quite sympathetic to Erica Chenoweth’s framing of the current…
On Local Backlash to Foreign Human Rights Pressure
By Sarah Bush This spring, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed into law a bill that criminalizes homosexuality. At…
Building a Better Cease-Fire
By Page Fortna The collapse of the cease-fire in the Israeli-Gaza conflict, less than 2 hours into what…
Weekly Links
By Danny Hirschel-Burns In an in-depth article, Gordon Adams advises the United States Government on how to bring…
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…
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…