PV Thought of the Week: Can Apps “Inform” the Public?
By Erica Chenoweth I was struck by this recent story about Apple rejecting a proposed iOS game called…
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Friday Puzzler: Obama’s Surprising Silence on Morsi’s Grab For Power
By Barbara F. Walter One of the puzzles surrounding Egyptian President Morsi’s very undemocratic move to expand his…
Friday Puzzler: Rich States, Poor States and Different Types of Violence
By Barbara F. Walter A few years back Claude Berrebi and I attended a conference on terrorism at UC…
Evading Invasion: Syria’s Chemical Weapons and Obama’s Audience Costs
By Erica D. Borghard and Jack Snyder Syria’s recent chemical weapons activity has raised the specter of audience…
Will Assad Use His Chemical Weapons?
By Taylor Marvin The risk of chemical weapons use by the Assad regime appears to be increasing. The New…
Violence Escalating in Eastern Congo
By David E. Cunningham Things are heating up in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). On Tuesday,…
Global Trends in Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: A Response to Green, Cohen, and Wood
By Andrew Mack We thank Amelia Hoover Green, Dara Kay Cohen and Elizabeth Jean Wood (henceforth GCW) for…
Syria: The Turning Tide
By Timothy D. Sisk Daily news reports confirm that the tide is quickly turning against Syria’s brutal Assad…
Political Violence Thought of the Week
By Erica Chenoweth Yesterday, British Prime Minister David Cameron once again floated the idea of giving Bashar al-Assad…
Is Wartime Rape Declining On a Global Scale? We Don’t Know — And It Doesn’t Matter
Guest post by Amelia Hoover Green, Drexel University; Dara Kay Cohen, Harvard Kennedy School; and Elisabeth Jean Wood, Yale University The…