Weekly Links
By Taylor Marvin Demonstrations and violent police response — “officers with their name tags removed firing stun grenades and…
Friday Puzzler: Where Are All the Female Bloggers?
By Taylor Marvin and Barbara F. Walter Blogging on international relations is dominated by male writers. The Monkey Cage’s regular authors…
Why Do Presidents Make Predictably Disastrous Choices? Part I
By Erica Chenoweth So a lot of folks are puzzling about Obama’s choice to provide arms to Syrian…
Is Turkey Burning? The Domestic Democratic Peace, Turkish Contention & New York Times Coverage
By Christian Davenport In 2007, I wrote a book called State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace. The main premise…
Weekly Links
By Taylor Marvin Former State Department Deputy Director Wayne White warns that supplying Syrian rebels with small arms is unlikely…
5 Reasons Why the Obama Administration’s Decision to Offer “Military Support” to Syrian Rebels Couldn’t Come at a Worse Time
By Sara Bjerg Moller Yesterday’s surprise announcement by the White House that the US will “increase the scale and scope of…
Our Favorite Posts, Year One Edition
By Barbara F. Walter On the occasion of our first anniversary, last week we asked readers and contributors to suggest their…
Why Don’t Anti-Drug Campaigns Highlight Violence?, Answered
By Taylor Marvin In our last puzzler we asked why American public anti-drug campaigns haven’t attempted to dissuade potential illicit drug…
Weekly Links
By Taylor Marvin Al-Monitor spoke to an FSA commander in Qusair before the city was retaken by regime forces: the…
Why More Violence Means Less Support For US Intervention in Syria
Guest post by Lionel Beehner One puzzle about the conflict in Syria: as the fighting grows more violent and…