Learning from Afghanistan: Multilateralism is Hard
By Steve Saideman The old saying is that success has a thousand fathers but that failure is an orphan.…
How To Beat A Bribe in Mexico City
By Barbara F. Walter I recently read an excellent article about bribery and discrimination in Latin America. In…
Germany and NATO Reform? Please
By Steve Saideman Germany gets far more grief than it should for under-performing in Afghanistan. Italy, Hungary, Turkey…
Weekly Links
By Taylor Marvin The dilemma of Syria’s Alawites, many of whom dislike Assad for drawing Syria into the destructive civil…
The Four Things We Know About How Civil Wars End (and What This Tells Us About Syria)
By Barbara F. Walter The Obama Administration continues to insist that it would like to see a diplomatic solution…
Why Not Call Iraq a Civil War?
By Erica Chenoweth Another suicide truck bomber blew himself up in northern Iraq today. Having noticed an awful…
Weekly Links
By Taylor Marvin Despite recent progress, UN chief Ban Ki-moon warns that efforts to catalog and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons…
Syrian Sunnis Sitting in the Catbird Seat
By Barbara F. Walter Last week I posed the puzzle that moderate Syrian Sunnis living in urban areas close…
War Without Weapons: How Non-Violent Campaigns Reduce the Incidence of War
By Andrew Mack Over the past four decades, there has been an astonishing, though little noticed, decline in…
A Dispatch from a Syrian Refugee Camp
By Lionel Beehner A few quick and random thoughts on my recent trip interviewing refugees along the Syrian-Jordanian…