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How Likely Is Nuclear Terrorism? Part One
By Matthew Kocher This post is going to be in two parts. In the first, I make a…
Syria: UN Monitors a Failure?
By Oliver Kaplan The April 12 Annan plan to deal with Syria was intended to moderate the Assad…
Explaining Communal Violence in Myanmar
By Kristine Eck The past week witnessed the outbreak of communal violence between the Muslim Rohingya and the…
Why Assad Will Fight to the Death
By Barbara F. Walter A striking fact about civil wars is that the outcome is often clear months…
Why Turkey’s Break with Assad Is Not Necessarily Good for the United States
By David B. Carter Few would contest the notion that Turkey is a rising regional power in the…
Children and Armed Conflict: The Indirect Toll
By Roland Paris On Monday, the United Nations released its annual report on children in armed conflict. Grisly…
Will the Middle East and North Africa Democratize? Part II
By Erica Chenoweth Following up on Part I from last week, two things. First, check out Page Fortna’s…
Intervening in Syria? Some Inconvenient Realities
By Stephen M. Saideman The world has been far slower in reacting to Syria’s civil war than Libya’s.…
Why No One Wants to Call Syria a Civil War
By Barbara F. Walter and Elizabeth Martin Syria has been in the midst of a civil war since…