Our (Near) Failing Report Card on Armed Conflict
By Lionel Beehner With Iraq imploding, two new reports on armed conflict essentially ask: How are we doing?…
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A Closer Look at ISIS in Iraq
Guest post by Evan Perkoski and Alec Worsnop On June 10th, the armed group known as the Islamic State…
Arming the Opposition: Do Sponsors Influence Client Violence?
Guest post by Reed M. Wood Thanks to the consideration of International Organization, the article “External Rebel Sponsorship…
Terrorism and Single-Party States
By Joe Young China has a terrorism problem. Members of the Uighur ethnic minority have recently perpetrated at…
Why Can’t Democracies Settle Civil Wars?
Guest post by Joakim Kreutz What effects will the outcome of the upcoming Colombian presidential elections (May 25th) have…
Activists, Authorities and the Problem of Telling the Difference
By Christian Davenport Discussion about who killed Anna Mae Aquash of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s…
Coding Crisis in Civil-Military Relations
By Steve Saideman Tom Ricks argued recently that there is a fundamental problem in American civil-military relations: “We…
Why Bother to Vote in Fraudulent Elections?
By Barbara F. Walter Last week I posed a puzzle that asked two questions: First, why would voter turnout…
The Worst Kind of Torture
By Joseph Young Nearly all states torture. Kingdoms, personalist and military dictatorships, and even democracies use this tool…
Does Torture Work?
Guest post by Christopher Sullivan More precisely, does committing torture enable state forces to limit subsequent acts of violence?…