Making Sense of Trump’s War Against the Islamic State
By Adam Scharpf The Islamic State (IS) has lost most of its territory in Syria and Iraq. Some…
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Explaining Iran’s Response to the Protests
By Graig R. Klein & Patrick M. Regan The recent protests in Iran are the bubbling over of…
Was the End of the Cold War the Beginning of the Oil Curse?
By Cullen S. Hendrix for Denver Dialogues Oil is the world’s most widely-traded commodity, and–a few alternative fuel…
Five Nonviolent Resistance Movements to Watch in 2018
By Jonathan Pinckney Where are we likely to see major nonviolent resistance movements in 2018? The question is…
Democracy in Peril: Ten Elections to Watch in 2018
By Timothy D. Sisk for Denver Dialogues Democracy’s resilience into the 21st century is rightly questioned. In 2017,…
Will Killer Robots Be Banned? An Update After Geneva
By Julia M. Macdonald for Denver Dialogues Over the past year, a growing chorus of voices has raised…
Searching for Silver Linings from 2017
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues Conflict scholarship can be a grim work, and 2017 provided bushels of…
How does intelligence become politicized?
by Alexander K. Bollfrass Ideally, spies should keep out of politics. Politics should not influence the work of intelligence…
An Amnesty Deal for Mexico’s Drug Cartels?
By Brian J. Phillips Mexico’s leading presidential candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, recently said he would consider offering…
What We Know about Militant Groups as Political Parties
By Aila Matanock Featured on both wanted posters and campaign posters in Pakistan, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed is not…