US Security Assistance and Terrorism: An Inconvenient Truth?
Guest post by Ed Coughlan. According to the Security Assistance Monitor (SAM) dataset, US assistance to foreign military,…
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Revisiting Rebellion: Why Women Participate in Armed Conflict
By Alexis Henshaw for Denver Dialogues. What makes a person choose to support or fight for a non-state…
Shit Happens: When Equilibrium Theories Meet Non-Equilibrium Outcomes
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues. Note: This post was filed last Thursday, before the attempted coup in…
The Importance of Civilian Agency in Conflict Settings
Guest post by Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv. On June 6, 2016, the Norwegian National Commission (Afghanistanutvalget) to evaluate Norway’s…
The Sequence of Land Reform and Political Reform
Guest post by Ilia Murtazashvili and Jennifer Murtazashvili. In Afghanistan, citizens are increasingly frustrated by land grabbing, such…
Should the US Open an Embassy in Pyongyang?
Normalizing Diplomatic Relations with North Korea has Been Off the Table for a Long Time. Maybe It’s Time…
“Dark Networks” and Extremist Adaptation
Guest post by Michael Kenney. Today, two of Britain’s leading extremists go on trial at the historic Old…
The Jevons Paradox and the Economy of Drone Strikes
Guest post by Christopher Shay. The killing in May of Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, the late leader of…
WANTED: UN Peacekeepers for Mali
By Marina Henke. In early June UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon made an urgent plea to increase the…
Nuclear Modernization and Nuclear Disarmament
Guest post by Scott Wisor. President Barack Obama has become the first sitting American President to visit Hiroshima,…