Will Charges and a Trial Follow? International Humanitarian Law and the “Wolf Brigade”
By Will H. Moore Back in fall of 2010, after US Private Bradley Manning passed classified US Army…
Keep Calm, Korean
By Andrew Kydd South Korea recently announced that it would target the North Korean “command leadership” in response…
Movies About Political Violence to Watch… and a Few You Shouldn’t
By Joe Young I recently reviewed a paper that explained how to structure an International Relations course through…
Friday Puzzler: Why Threaten the US with Nuclear Attack?
By Barbara F. Walter Today’s puzzler is simple: Why would Kim Jong Un think it was a good idea…
The Decline of Violence in Africa
By David E. Cunningham This week’s (March 2nd-8th) issue of The Economist has a 14-page special feature on…
Political Violence Thought of the Week
By Erica Chenoweth Why would Syrian rebels abduct UN peacekeepers stationed in the Golan Heights? Here are two…
Friday Puzzler: Why Support the Taliban?
By Barbara F. Walter Madiha Afzal, an economist at the University of Maryland, has conducted a fascinating public…
Democracy and Militarism
By Will H. Moore Last November I posted here about Yagil Levy’s new book, Israel’s Death Hierarchy: Casualty Aversion in…
Resolving the Syria Crisis: Conference Report
By Oliver Kaplan and Erica Chenoweth On January 10-11, the University of Denver hosted “Resolving the Syria Crisis,”…
Ongoing R2P Violations in Syria Highlight the Urgency of Global Governance Reform
Guest post by Eamon Aloyo Bashar al-Assad’s military and some opposition rebels have committed, and will likely continue committing,…