Silent Guns: Examining the Two-Year Absence of Coups in Africa
Guest Post by Rebecca Schiel and Jonathan Powell This Sunday, 17 September 2017, marks two years since the…
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Lessons in Failure: Libya Five Years Later
By Danielle L. Lupton. The 2011 NATO-led intervention in Libya was initially hailed as a success. The record…
Defeating ISIS in Egypt Won’t Reduce Violence
Guest post by Stephanie Dornschneider. Giulio Regeni was a doctoral student at the University of Cambridge. He conducted…
Context, Confirmation Bias, and the Crash of MetroJet 9286
By Allison Hodgkins With ISIS-inspired attacks cropping up almost every week, the October 31, 2015, crash of MetroJet…
What the Algerian Civil War Can Teach Us About Combating ISIS
Guest post by Kevin Greene In an op-ed for The National, Dr. Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck notes the similarities between…
Financing Rebellion Through Maritime Piracy
Guest post by Ursala Daxecker and Brandon Prins In June 2008, a floating production storage and offloading vessel…
Who’s Afraid of Ajnad Misr?
By Allison Beth Hodgkins and Kamal Eldin Salah When IS’s Sinai affiliate Wilayat Sina’ (Province of Sinai) launched…
Where Do Pirates Go?
Guest post by Ursula Daxecker, Brandon Prins, and Jessica Di Salvatore The rise (and decline) of Somali piracy.…
Do Tunisians Perceive a Democracy/Security Tradeoff?
By Sarah Bush and Lauren Prather Earlier this week, armed men opened fire on tourists getting off buses…
The Strategic Incentives for Violent Extremism
By Barbara F. Walter On February 18th, the Obama administration will hold a Summit on Countering Violent Extremism.…