Is War Really on the Decline? And if so, Why?
By Lionel Beehner AlexAK, who commented on our “Would Someone Please Explain This to Me?” post, asked this…
Measurement of Regime Type Effects on Police Focus
By Erica Chenoweth This post, part of our “Would Someone Please Explain This to Me?” series, is in…
The Blame Game
By Andrew Kydd The downing of a Malaysian airliner over eastern Ukraine with the loss of almost 300…
Weekly Links
By Danny Hirschel-Burns Writing well in advance of yesterday’s Israeli ground invasion of Gaza, The Jewish Daily Forward…
Why Is ISIS the First Islamist Rebel Group to Claim to Resurrect the Caliphate?
By Allison Beth Hodgkins In response to our Would Someone Please Explain This to Me? post, commenter Chris C wrote: Why…
The Paradox of 2014
By Erica Chenoweth In recent weeks, a number of people have asked me whether I think we’re headed for…
Why Hamas Escalated, When Before They Didn’t
By Allison Beth Hodgkins Just a short while ago it seemed that the Islamic militant group Hamas had everything…
Would Someone Please Explain This to Me?
By Erica Chenoweth When this blog was just a couple of months old, we experimented with a series…
Weekly Links
By Danny Hirschel-Burns In a wide-ranging essay in the London Review of Books, Owen Bennett looks out at ISIS’…
Weekly Links
By Taylor Marvin Happy Fourth of July, to readers who celebrate it. The German military’s training mission in Mali,…