What Was England Thinking?
By Barbara F. Walter One of the first things you learn in Management 101 is that you don’t…
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What to do about ISIS?: For Starters, Think Political as Well as Military Strategy
Guest post by Deborah Avant In looking at what the US – or anyone else – should do…
Averting the Next Ferguson: One Simple Solution
Guest post by Zoltan Hajnal It appears that violence in Ferguson is fading away. That is certainly a…
The Dangerous Mixture of Oil and Water in Iraq
Guest post by Ariel Ahram Iraq stands alone in the Arab world in having large quantities of two…
Secessionism: The Use of Violence and International Recognition
By Bridget Coggins As part of our “Would Someone Please Explain This to Me” series, Carter asked: “This…
Israel’s Strategic Goal
Guest post by Jeremy Pressman Part of me is quite sympathetic to Erica Chenoweth’s framing of the current…
Measurement of Regime Type Effects on Police Focus
By Erica Chenoweth This post, part of our “Would Someone Please Explain This to Me?” series, is in…
Why Is ISIS the First Islamist Rebel Group to Claim to Resurrect the Caliphate?
By Allison Beth Hodgkins In response to our Would Someone Please Explain This to Me? post, commenter Chris C wrote: Why…
Fragile is the New Failure
By Bridget Coggins We shouldn’t stop talking about failed states, but merely changing the way that we talk…
Coup-proof? Trading One Kind of Insecurity For Another
By Steve Saideman In the classic civil-military relations literature, the focus is on coups and how to prevent them.…