Interview: A Local Peacebuilder’s Take on the FARC Peace Talks
By Oliver Kaplan for Denver Dialogues (Please note: A Spanish version of this post is available at Las…
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What Do We Know, and Need to Know, About Successful Counterinsurgency?
Guest post by Eli Berman and Aila M. Matanock Imagine a counterinsurgency challenge: government forces (like the Iraqi…
State Power and the Visibility of Drug Violence
By Angélica Durán-Martínez “Headless bodies found in Acapulco”. “Nine corpses found hanging from a bridge”. “3 bodies with…
Guatemala Calling: Lynchings and the Politics of Inequality
By Matthew Klick for Denver Dialogues On May 20th, 2015, a sixteen-year-old girl was captured, beaten and, while…
Friday Puzzler: Why No Coups in Saudi Arabia?
By Barbara F. Walter I had the pleasure of having lunch in D.C. on Wednesday with a bunch of extremely…
Militant Proliferation and the Consequences of Fragmentation
Guest post by Evan Perkoski Contemporary irregular conflicts often share a common feature: they are fragmented. States are…
Bread, Circuses, and Other Political Lessons We Should (Not) Have Learned From the Romans
Guest post by Joseph Weinberg In a recently published article, Ryan Baker and I made an argument about…
ISIS, Ideology, and the Illicit Drug Economy
Guest post by Eric W. Schoon Reports have emerged alleging that the Islamic State is funding their efforts…
Militias in Syria & Iraq: A Blessing in Disguise?
By Barbara F. Walter Pro-government militias are proliferating in the civil wars in Syria and Iraq and this…
Does Democracy Constrain Rulers or Pacify Dissidents?
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues After two decades of slow but consistent progress toward more democratic governance,…