Climate Change and the Syrian Civil War
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues The Syrian Civil War (2011-) has so far claimed over 400,000 lives…
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The Legacy of Reconstruction and Occupation After the US Civil War
Guest Post by Megan Stewart, American University, School of International Service Late last month, HBO announced the next…
Building Legitimacy during Armed Conflict – Learning from the Taliban
Guest Post by Florian Weigand, London School of Economics 15 years after the international intervention, news from Afghanistan…
Why Trump Ending Support to Syrian Rebels Might Actually be a Good Thing
Guest post by Niklas Karlén. The Washington Post recently reported that President Trump has decided to end the…
Prospects for Peace in South Sudan
By Patrick Pierson. Late last week, US Deputy Ambassador Michele Sison stood before the UN Security Council and…
Conflict, Generations, and Long-term Change in Civil-Military Relations
Guest post by Peter B. White. While the number of coups and military regimes has declined since the…
Why Civil Wars have Gotten Longer, Bloodier, and More Numerous
By Barbara F. Walter. A series of alarming trends are converging in the world of civil wars. Since…
The Global Spread of Demands for Self-Rule
Guest post by Katherine Sawyer and Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham. Although the European Union and United Nations were once…
Authority and Contestation inside Rebel Groups: Insights from Myanmar
Guest post by David Brenner. Recent scholarship highlights the importance of internal fragmentation for explaining the strategies of…
The (Overblown) Concerns Linking Foreign Fighters, Civil Wars, and Terrorist Campaigns
Guest post by Alex Braithwaite and Tiffany Chu. More than 30,000 foreign fighters from 100 countries have entered…