Will the Arab Spring Democratize the Mideast? (Or, We Didn’t Say It Wouldn’t)
By Page Fortna I’m tickled pink to have my research with Reyko Huang discussed by Erica Chenoweth in…
Killing Women and Children: An Alternative Possibility
By Matthew Kocher I want to thank Barbara and Erica for starting this blog and for inviting me…
The Coup Was The Revolution
By Will H. Moore A quick tour of stories covering the recent national elections in Egypt reveals a couple…
Why Assad Denies his Role in the Massacre
By Barbara F. Walter Everyone knows that Assad was the behind the May 25th massacre of women and…
Will the Middle East and North Africa Democratize? Part I
By Erica Chenoweth Dictators have fallen in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. The Syrian regime is against the…
Why Kill Women and Children in Syria?
By Barbara F. Walter On May 25th the Syrian Army and its thugs killed over a hundred civilians…
The Banality of Violent Organizations
By Joe Young Before the now famous raid on the Bin Laden compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, members of…