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By Will H. Moore Back in 2010 an Irish journalist, Mark Little, left his post as presenter on Irish…
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Why the CW Inspection Plan Doesn’t Have to be Perfect, or Even Close, to Succeed
By Page Fortna As the Obama administration and the world contemplate a plan to secure Syria’s chemical weapons,…
Friday Puzzler: The Logic of Chemical Weapons
By Barbara F. Walter Over the last two weeks, the policy world and the media have fixated on…
When Diplomacy Means More War
By Barbara F. Walter Admit it. We all breathed a sigh of relief when we heard that President…
Do Interventions End Repressive Spells? Insights for Syria from Previous Attempts, 1976-2003
By Christian Davenport and Ben Appel It is said that those who ignore history are doomed repeat prior mistakes.…
Military Intervention, Syrian Soldiers, and Civilians
Guest post by Jacqueline H.R. DeMeritt Evidence of Syria’s chemical attack on civilians is mounting, and military intervention…
Friday Puzzler: Russia’s Anti-Gay Laws (Unless You’re Not Russian)
By Barbara F. Walter Hosting the 2014 Winter Games is clearly valuable to President Putin and his government —…
Syria & Chemical Weapons Linkage
By Taylor Marvin New reports alledge that the Assad regime has killed hundreds in an early-morning chemical attack targeting…
Egypt and the Road to Civil War
By Joe Young Egypt is on the road to civil war, even if policy makers don’t like the…
Cambodia’s Post-Election Crisis in Context
By Sarah Bush Cambodia, a country consistently ranked as “not free” by Freedom House, is in the midst…