Ongoing R2P Violations in Syria Highlight the Urgency of Global Governance Reform
Guest post by Eamon Aloyo Bashar al-Assad’s military and some opposition rebels have committed, and will likely continue committing,…
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Friday Puzzler: Twitter and War
By Barbara F. Walter Back in November, the Israeli Defense Forces fundamentally changed how governments chose to communicate…
Can We Please Have Useful Reporting?
By Will H. Moore Over the weekend National Public Radio broadcast a story about rebel gains in Syria.…
Political Violence Thought of the Week
By Erica Chenoweth In his Tuesday State of the Union address, President Obama made a revealing comment about his…
Feels Like the Third Time*
By Andrew Kydd North Korea has detonated its third nuclear device and its first to convincingly split some…
Army Training, Suh!
By Steve Saideman NATO operations in Afghanistan are a complex exercise in cooperation and shared responsibility. Members of the ISAF not only…
Another French Military Intervention in Africa
By David E. Cunningham For the last several days, French forces have used military force to support the…
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…
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…
Political Violence Thought of the Week
By Erica Chenoweth The Obama administration has recognized the Syrian opposition, rather than the Assad regime, as the…