Do Natural Disasters Fuel Unrest?
Guest post by Cullen Hendrix Do natural disasters, like Typhoon Hayian, fuel rebellion and social unrest? Given the Philippines’…
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Internationally Irrelevant: The Limited Reach of Scotland’s Precedent Setting
By Stephen Saideman There have long been fears that a successful secessionist effort will encourage other potential secessionists, potentially…
Is UN Offensive Intervention in Congo a New Model of Peacekeeping?
By Lionel Beehner Good news is a rare commodity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). So skepticism is…
The Rule of Law in Post-Conflict Settings
Guest post by Stephan Haggard and Lydia Tiede For many years, the academic literature on civil war has…
Bordering on Civility
By Bridget Coggins There are complicated border disputes, and there are complicated border disputes. I’m currently copyediting my…
Learning from Afghanistan: Multilateralism is Hard
By Steve Saideman The old saying is that success has a thousand fathers but that failure is an orphan.…
How To Beat A Bribe in Mexico City
By Barbara F. Walter I recently read an excellent article about bribery and discrimination in Latin America. In…
Why Not Call Iraq a Civil War?
By Erica Chenoweth Another suicide truck bomber blew himself up in northern Iraq today. Having noticed an awful…
War Without Weapons: How Non-Violent Campaigns Reduce the Incidence of War
By Andrew Mack Over the past four decades, there has been an astonishing, though little noticed, decline in…
The Logic Behind Assad’s Use of Chemical Weapons
By Barbara F. Walter Last week I asked why Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons even after Obama had drawn…