Will Charges and a Trial Follow? International Humanitarian Law and the “Wolf Brigade”
By Will H. Moore Back in fall of 2010, after US Private Bradley Manning passed classified US Army…
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Friday Puzzler: Why Threaten the US with Nuclear Attack?
By Barbara F. Walter Today’s puzzler is simple: Why would Kim Jong Un think it was a good idea…
Political Violence Thought of the Week
By Erica Chenoweth Why would Syrian rebels abduct UN peacekeepers stationed in the Golan Heights? Here are two…
Friday Puzzler: Why Support the Taliban?
By Barbara F. Walter Madiha Afzal, an economist at the University of Maryland, has conducted a fascinating public…
Resolving the Syria Crisis: Conference Report
By Oliver Kaplan and Erica Chenoweth On January 10-11, the University of Denver hosted “Resolving the Syria Crisis,”…
Ongoing R2P Violations in Syria Highlight the Urgency of Global Governance Reform
Guest post by Eamon Aloyo Bashar al-Assad’s military and some opposition rebels have committed, and will likely continue committing,…
How Not to Get Published in the Iran Review
By Andrew Kydd Occasionally an Iranian journalist sends me an email asking my opinion on various foreign policy…
Can We Please Have Useful Reporting?
By Will H. Moore Over the weekend National Public Radio broadcast a story about rebel gains in Syria.…
Friday Puzzler: The Silence of the Drones
By Barbara F. Walter The most recent national survey by the Pew Research Center finds that over fifty…
Political Violence Thought of the Week
By Erica Chenoweth In his Tuesday State of the Union address, President Obama made a revealing comment about his…