Climate Change and the Syrian Civil War
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues The Syrian Civil War (2011-) has so far claimed over 400,000 lives…
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Building Legitimacy during Armed Conflict – Learning from the Taliban
Guest Post by Florian Weigand, London School of Economics 15 years after the international intervention, news from Afghanistan…
Why Trump Ending Support to Syrian Rebels Might Actually be a Good Thing
Guest post by Niklas Karlén. The Washington Post recently reported that President Trump has decided to end the…
The (Overblown) Concerns Linking Foreign Fighters, Civil Wars, and Terrorist Campaigns
Guest post by Alex Braithwaite and Tiffany Chu. More than 30,000 foreign fighters from 100 countries have entered…
The Liberal Arts as Antidote to Political Extremism in the Middle East
By Allison Hodgkins and Ted Purinton. With ISIS-inspired terror attacks becoming an almost routine occurrence, there is renewed…
After Aleppo, Don’t Forget These Conflicts in 2017
By Marie E. Berry and Hollie Nyseth Brehm for Denver Dialogues. In December, as the former stronghold…
What a Decisive Victory Looks Like
By Allison Beth Hodgkins. There is a certain irony in Aleppo falling on the eighteenth anniversary of the…
What Could a Trump Presidency Mean for Syria?
Guest post by Clarence Moore. Throughout a long and surprising campaign, President-elect Donald Trump promised enthusiastic crowds that…
Erdogan’s Opportunistic War on Terror
By Navin Bapat and Sean Zeigler. In the past several weeks, Turkey has breached the sovereignty of two…
It’s the Economy, Stupid (But Blame Minority Groups)
Guest post by Graig R. Klein, Carla Martinez Machain, and Efe Tokdemir. In an effort to rally political support during…