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By Will H. Moore Back in 2010 an Irish journalist, Mark Little, left his post as presenter on Irish…
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By Taylor Marvin The US and Russia reached a deal Saturday aimed at disposing of Syria’s chemical arms by mid-2014. The…
Why the CW Inspection Plan Doesn’t Have to be Perfect, or Even Close, to Succeed
By Page Fortna As the Obama administration and the world contemplate a plan to secure Syria’s chemical weapons,…
Friday Puzzler: The Logic of Chemical Weapons
By Barbara F. Walter Over the last two weeks, the policy world and the media have fixated on…
When Diplomacy Means More War
By Barbara F. Walter Admit it. We all breathed a sigh of relief when we heard that President…
Do Interventions End Repressive Spells? Insights for Syria from Previous Attempts, 1976-2003
By Christian Davenport and Ben Appel It is said that those who ignore history are doomed repeat prior mistakes.…
Obama’s Syria Speech — A Diplomatic Solution?
By Taylor Marvin Yesterday President Obama gave an important speech on Syria, asking Congress to delay a decision on whether…
Ostrich or Quixote: Intervention in Syria et Moi
By Will H. Moore Well, the global superpower is actively considering military strikes in a civil war and…
Cartoons and Syria
By Christian Davenport One thing that academics do is engage in “verstehens” or thought experiments. This said, we do…
The Perils of Disingenuous Proposals
By Andrew Kydd The tale of US involvement in the Middle Eastern civil wars has now officially entered…