Fortress of Solitude: What Does Diplomatic Isolation Actually Do?
By Andrew Kydd Much has been made of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s decision to attend the upcoming summit…
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Carrots, Not Sticks
By Erica Chenoweth and Laura Dugan We recently published an article in the American Sociological Review in which we argue…
Logistics and US Force Readiness
By Kelly M. Greenhill An old military adage, frequently attributed to US Army General Omar Bradley, a highly-decorated,…
Syria’s Bad, Bad Chemical Weapons Bluff
By Barbara F. Walter Something strange happened on Monday. The Assad regime came out and publicly declared that they…
The 5 Percent Rule and Indiscriminate Killing of Civilians
By Will H. Moore A remarkably successful bombing yesterday in Damascus has me reflecting on Mark Lichbach’s 5 Percent…
Why Assad’s Regime will (Probably) Survive the Damascus Bombing—For Now
By Erica Chenoweth Some commentators have called Wednesday’s deadly attack on top Syrian defense officials a turning point,…
Israel and the Iranian Bomb
By Erica Chenoweth Following up on Andrew Kydd’s terrific post on Israel’s thinking about the Iranian nuclear program,…
Operation Ramadan?
By Oliver Kaplan Today I’m writing about the possibility of conducting psy-ops in Syria, Colombia-style. One year ago,…
Kabuki Theater at the Afghanistan Donors’ Conference
By Roland Paris I have an op-ed article in yesterday’s Globe and Mail, a Canadian newspaper, which the…
Israel, Iran, and the Holocaust Analogy
By Andrew Kydd As the negotiations over the Iranian nuclear program grind to a halt, we are likely…