Why Proxy Wars in the Middle East Are (Probably) Here to Stay
By Barbara F. Walter Between 1992 and 2008, the duration of civil wars became significantly shorter than they…
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Financing Rebellion Through Maritime Piracy
Guest post by Ursala Daxecker and Brandon Prins In June 2008, a floating production storage and offloading vessel…
How Can We Keep Aid Workers Safe?
Guest post by Larissa Fast Today is World Humanitarian Day, a day to remember humanitarian aid workers around…
Interview: A Local Peacebuilder’s Take on the FARC Peace Talks
By Oliver Kaplan for Denver Dialogues (Please note: A Spanish version of this post is available at Las…
What Do We Know, and Need to Know, About Successful Counterinsurgency?
Guest post by Eli Berman and Aila M. Matanock Imagine a counterinsurgency challenge: government forces (like the Iraqi…
Military Intervention: Who Looks Before They Leap?
Guest post by Aaron Rapport When conflicts arise in international politics, there is always the possibility that one…
Nonviolence Means Less Abuse
By Oliver Kaplan for Denver Dialogues Did you hear about the scandal involving nonviolent accompaniers who sexually abused…
Joe Public v. Sue Scholar: Support for the Use of Force
Guest post by Michael C. Horowitz and Idean Salehyan In a democracy, public opinion matters. This is especially…
Strong Medicine or Weak Placebo?: The Debate over Putin’s Foreign Policies
Guest post by Brandon Valeriano and Ryan C. Maness Paper Tiger Putin Folds Back in March 2015, Ryan Maness…
Militias in Syria & Iraq: A Blessing in Disguise?
By Barbara F. Walter Pro-government militias are proliferating in the civil wars in Syria and Iraq and this…