State Responses to Local Conflict: Providing Security or Protecting Interests?
By Emma Elfversson When violence erupted in late 2014 between local communities in Turkana, Kenya, where oil was recently…
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Making Sense of Sinai: Attack or Opportunism?
By Joe Young What happened to the Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula? If the Egyptians…
From Protection to Predation Part I: When Self-Defense Forces “Go Bad”
By Steven T. Zech for Denver Dialogues Academic research on internal armed conflict focuses on violence perpetrated by…
Bridging the Metonymic Gap: In Practice Rather Than in Parlance
By Cassy Dorff for Denver Dialogues The conversation on “bridging the gap” is a well-aged one to say…
Celebrating As One? #1325at15
Guest post by Louise Olsson and Theodora-Ismene Gizelis On October 13th, the Security Council will meet to hold its…
Enough with the Pessimism about Peacekeeping
By Page Fortna The recent story from the New York Times about United Nations peacekeeping is typical of…
Domestic Terrorism in Democratic States: The Important Role Played by Grievances
Guest post by Brandon C. Prins, Sambuddha Ghatak, and Aaron Gold October 22, 2014: A soldier guarding a…
Does Democracy Constrain Rulers or Pacify Dissidents?
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues After two decades of slow but consistent progress toward more democratic governance,…
Bashir’s Visit
By Will H. Moore Sudanese President Omar al Bashir’s recent visit to, and from, South Africa raises interesting…
Why the US Shouldn’t Execute the Boston Bomber
By Joe Young Dzhokhar Tsarnaev by his own admission is guilty of the Boston Bombings that took the…