On Keeping a Colombian Peace
By Oliver Kaplan Page Fortna’s post earlier this week is an excellent analysis of the prospects for peacekeepers…
Timetables and Deadlines
By Andrew Kydd The Vice Presidential debate featured some interesting exchanges on foreign policy, too many for some…
Lasting Peace in Colombia: Pipe Dream or Possible?
By Page Fortna Oliver Kaplan recently posted about the prospects for reaching a peace deal in Colombia when…
Friday Puzzler: Why Did the Governments in Egypt and Libya Respond So Differently to the Embassy Attacks?
By Barbara F. Walter On September 11, 2012, US embassies in Egypt and Libya were attacked. While the…
Landing a Peace Agreement with the FARC
By Oliver Kaplan I just published an op-ed entitled “Colombia’s Rebels and Land Reform” in the The New York…
Naughty or Nice? The Politics of the FTO List
By Joseph Young For casual observers, the recent dust-up over the delisting of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or MEK, from…
Friday Puzzler: If Presidential Debates Have Little Effect, Why Engage in Them?
By Barbara F. Walter Over at The Monkey Cage, John Sides has a timely post on the influence…
Refugees, Transnational Rebels, and the Syrian Civil War
Guest post by Idean Salehyan The Syrian conflict has sparked one of the world’s worst refugee crises, as over 300,000…
Political Violence Thought of the Week
By Erica Chenoweth Netanyahu draws a red line, but Israeli elites seem introspective about the wisdom of fighting Iran.…
Postcard from the Surviving Violence Workshop
By Oliver Kaplan Civilian protection. It’s going to be a thing. It is a thing! I just got…