Why Would Police Risk Planting a Violent Protester?
By Will H. Moore Yesterday Joakim Kruetz posted this question on Facebook: The quote is from a blog post…
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Is Turkey Burning? The Domestic Democratic Peace, Turkish Contention & New York Times Coverage
By Christian Davenport In 2007, I wrote a book called State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace. The main premise…
Our Favorite Posts, Year One Edition
By Barbara F. Walter On the occasion of our first anniversary, last week we asked readers and contributors to suggest their…
Political Violence Thought of the Week
By Erica Chenoweth A recent article in the New York Times reminded me of recent work about why violence…
Comparative Xenophobia, Part III: The Quickening
By Steve Saideman Over the past couple of days, Max Fisher has posted a few maps and some…
Did Charles Tilly Labor in Vain?
By Will H. Moore Last week Jonathan Panikoff posted a stream of clap-trap and nonsense at Small Wars…
Comparative Xenophobia, Part I
By Steve Saideman Yesterday, the Washington Post put up this map based on World Values data and other…
Friday Puzzler: Why Lie About Benghazi?
By Barbara F. Walter It’s now increasingly clear that Obama knew as early as the evening of September…
On the Perils of Red Lines
By Erica Chenoweth Our very own contributor Dan Byman has an op-ed in the Sunday New York Times…
Friday Puzzler: Benetton Boos Bangladesh
By Barbara F. Walter Last week’s tragic garment factory collapse in Bangladesh was all too familiar. Textile workers operating in…