Angels and Anarchists: A Conflict Scholar’s Response to Steven Pinker’s New Book
By Christian Davenport In his popular new book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined Steven…
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Syria: UN Monitors a Failure?
By Oliver Kaplan The April 12 Annan plan to deal with Syria was intended to moderate the Assad…
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…
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…
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…
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…