My Corps, Your Corps, Our Corps… the PEACE Corps?!
By Oliver Kaplan Yes, it’s true: as much as some might want to deny it, the Marine Corps…
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By Taylor Marvin Gregory D. Johnsen on the failures of US counterterrorism in Yemen. Johnsen also recently talked to…
Friday Puzzler: Why do Extremists Disproportionately Gain When States Falter?
By Barbara F. Walter One of the puzzles associated with the war in Syria is why radical Islamist groups…
Commitment Problems and Preventive War
By Matthew Adam Kocher Among the few very serious threats to interstate peace in the world today is the…
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By Taylor Marvin Al Qaeda’s Syrian recruits: the case of ‘Abu Majed’. “What draws fighters to such Islamist jihadist groups…
Friday Puzzler: Sexual Assault and the US Military
By Barbara F. Walter Over the last six months we’ve read lots of news stories about sexual assault…
How Mugabe Holds Power
Guest post by Noorjit Sidhu This piece is the second of two written for Claire Adida’s UC San Diego…
Why Was CAR President Francois Bozizé Recently Deposed, and Why Now?
Guest post by Bob Bahr This piece was one of two written for Claire Adida’s UC San Diego undergraduate course “Contention…
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By Taylor Marvin Russia pushes ahead with the delivery of advanced surface-to-air missiles to the Assad regime (via Justin…
How Would Obama’s Syria Policy Benefit from Hindsight?
By Taylor Marvin The conflict in Syria has now killed over 100,000 people, and the war appears likely to…