Why Do Presidents Make Predictably Disastrous Choices? Part I
By Erica Chenoweth So a lot of folks are puzzling about Obama’s choice to provide arms to Syrian…
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5 Reasons Why the Obama Administration’s Decision to Offer “Military Support” to Syrian Rebels Couldn’t Come at a Worse Time
By Sara Bjerg Moller Yesterday’s surprise announcement by the White House that the US will “increase the scale and scope of…
Why More Violence Means Less Support For US Intervention in Syria
Guest post by Lionel Beehner One puzzle about the conflict in Syria: as the fighting grows more violent and…
R2P ~ Regime Change
By Steve Saideman Andrew Kydd argues that R2P is not equal to regime change, which is technically true.…
The Attack on the ICRC and the Changing Conflict in Afghanistan
By Jason Lyall On 29 May, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)’s compound in Jalalabad, Afghanistan,…
R2P ≠ Regime Change
By Andrew Kydd We are now past at least 70,000 dead in the Syrian conflict and mass atrocities…
When the Going Gets Tough, Fake It?
Guest post by Victoria Piccione This January the Iranian government announced that it had successfully launched a monkey…
Friday Puzzler: Why Lie About Benghazi?
By Barbara F. Walter It’s now increasingly clear that Obama knew as early as the evening of September…
NATO and Churchill Yet Again
By Steve Saideman Almost since the alliance was created, there have been worries about the inefficiency and potential…
On the Perils of Red Lines
By Erica Chenoweth Our very own contributor Dan Byman has an op-ed in the Sunday New York Times…