Why More Violence Means Less Support For US Intervention in Syria
Guest post by Lionel Beehner One puzzle about the conflict in Syria: as the fighting grows more violent and…
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The Attack on the ICRC and the Changing Conflict in Afghanistan
By Jason Lyall On 29 May, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)’s compound in Jalalabad, Afghanistan,…
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…
Friday Puzzler: Obama’s Shift on Drones
By Barbara F. Walter The idea for today’s puzzler comes from my good friend Luke Condra at the…
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…
When the Going Gets Tough, Fake It?
Guest post by Victoria Piccione This January the Iranian government announced that it had successfully launched a monkey…
What Caused Google to Recognize Palestine?
By Barbara F. Walter On May 1 Google quietly changed the name of its regional search page from…
Comparative Xenophobia, Part I
By Steve Saideman Yesterday, the Washington Post put up this map based on World Values data and other…
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…
Mything Iraq: Ten Years And Little Learning
By Steve Saideman With the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq there has been and will be…