Thursday Mystery of the Week: Canada the Bold and Sri Lanka
By Steve Saideman Canada is taking a strong stand on a humanitarian issue, stepping out way in front…
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Do Red Lines on WMD Use Matter?
Guest post by Lionel Beehner Do red lines matter? The Obama administration has faced mounting criticism for setting a…
Some Stuff I Learned at ISA
By Erica Chenoweth Like many of my colleagues, I attended the 2013 International Studies Association Annual Meeting in…
What’s Up with the Heated Foreign Policy on the Korean Peninsula?
By Will H. Moore Political scientists used to be interested in the extent to which bellicose (or cooperative)…
Mything Iraq: Ten Years And Little Learning
By Steve Saideman With the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq there has been and will be…
Keep Calm, Korean
By Andrew Kydd South Korea recently announced that it would target the North Korean “command leadership” in response…
Friday Puzzler: Why Threaten the US with Nuclear Attack?
By Barbara F. Walter Today’s puzzler is simple: Why would Kim Jong Un think it was a good idea…
The Decline of Violence in Africa
By David E. Cunningham This week’s (March 2nd-8th) issue of The Economist has a 14-page special feature on…
Democracy and Militarism
By Will H. Moore Last November I posted here about Yagil Levy’s new book, Israel’s Death Hierarchy: Casualty Aversion in…
Resolving the Syria Crisis: Conference Report
By Oliver Kaplan and Erica Chenoweth On January 10-11, the University of Denver hosted “Resolving the Syria Crisis,”…