The Crimea Crisis and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Guest post by Ehud Eiran A Russian-French confrontation in the Holy Land in the middle of the 19th century…
García Márquez’ Magical Realism: It’s Real
By Oliver Kaplan Last month, the world lost literary giant Gabriel García Márquez, whom Colombian President Juan Manuel…
The Trajectory of Public Opinion about Torture
By Will H. Moore In a forthcoming American Political Science Review article, Chris Fariss reports that: The standard of…
Weekly Links
By Taylor Marvin Against the background of a weekend “vote” for independence in eastern Ukraine and calls for annexation by…
Boko Haram Is Winning, and You Are Helping
By Will H. Moore Boko Haram (BH) has had a banner couple of weeks, and the western press…
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By Taylor Marvin On the mass kidnapping of Nigerian schoolgirls by the insurgent group Boko Haram, a crime that…
Why Kidnap Girls?
By Barbara F. Walter One of the strategies that Boko Haram has pursued in its attempt to overthrow the…
Fleet Weak
By Lionel Beehner There is much talk of Russia as a rising naval power, with its seizure of Crimea,…
Reconciliation Today, More Talk Tomorrow
By Allison Beth Hodgkins Tuesday April 29, 2014 has come and gone without the conclusion of an Israeli-Palestinian peace…
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By Taylor Marvin In Syria, a “lost generation” of children left dead, scarred, or uneducated by a war many…