Voting Because of Violence: War, Casualties, and Political Mobilization
Guest post by Michael T. Koch and Stephen P. Nicholson. Will the 2016 presidential election be one dominated…
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A Chinese Resource Curse?
Guest post by Julia Bader and Ursula Daxecker Is China’s oil diplomacy worsening human rights in resource-rich states?…
This Is How ISIS Wants Us to Respond to the Paris Attacks. Let’s Not Do It.
By Barbara F. Walter One of the troubling features of the recent terrorist attacks on France, Russia, and…
Academics are Policy Troubleshooters
By Oliver Kaplan for Denver Dialogues It seems like these days academics are increasingly striving to produce “policy-relevant”…
Puzzling Aspects of the US Debate on Syrian Refugees
Guest post by Jeremy Pressman One thing that struck me about the reaction in the United States to…
Divide and Conquer – The Long-Term Political Effects of Terrorism
By Thomas Zeitzoff and Anna Getmansky The recent attacks attributed to ISIS in Paris, Beirut, the Sinai, and…
Overconfidence and the War in Syria
Guest post by Dominic Johnson The attacks in Paris have elevated both the desire and the case for…
Don’t Let A Setback Become a Defeat
By Andrew Kydd The terrorist attacks in Paris are a stinging loss in the war against the Islamic…
The Strategy of ISIS: Logic or Lunacy?
By Barbara F. Walter Over the weekend, everyone has been asking the same question: why would ISIS bomb…
State Responses to Local Conflict: Providing Security or Protecting Interests?
By Emma Elfversson When violence erupted in late 2014 between local communities in Turkana, Kenya, where oil was recently…