Friday Puzzler: Twitter and War
By Barbara F. Walter Back in November, the Israeli Defense Forces fundamentally changed how governments chose to communicate…
How Not to Get Published in the Iran Review
By Andrew Kydd Occasionally an Iranian journalist sends me an email asking my opinion on various foreign policy…
Can We Please Have Useful Reporting?
By Will H. Moore Over the weekend National Public Radio broadcast a story about rebel gains in Syria.…
Friday Puzzler: The Silence of the Drones
By Barbara F. Walter The most recent national survey by the Pew Research Center finds that over fifty…
Political Violence Thought of the Week
By Erica Chenoweth In his Tuesday State of the Union address, President Obama made a revealing comment about his…
Feels Like the Third Time*
By Andrew Kydd North Korea has detonated its third nuclear device and its first to convincingly split some…
When Democratization Produces Drug Violence
By Will H. Moore Why has violence surrounding the drug trade in Mexico spiked so much since the…
Books on Political Violence You Should Own*
By Joe Young Like all academics, I am a hoarder. I hoard books. A proud academic has shelves…
Guest Puzzler: Why’s Iran So Terrible at Lying?
By Taylor Marvin The Iranian government regularly trumpets its technical achievements. This in and of itself is unsurprising,…
Army Training, Suh!
By Steve Saideman NATO operations in Afghanistan are a complex exercise in cooperation and shared responsibility. Members of the ISAF not only…