What’s Going on in Mali?
By Erica Chenoweth This post is part of the “Would Someone Please Explain This to Me?” series. Reader JCB asks:…
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Atop the Sovereignty Bubble
By Bridget Coggins, Tanisha Fazal, and Ryan Griffiths Earlier this week, Sudan and South Sudan announced an agreement on oil pipeline fees…
Regional Clusters of Conflict
By David E. Cunningham Last week, I posted about the general decline in the level and severity of…
Syria, Libya, and the Responsibility to Protect
By Andrew Kydd Over ten thousand people have been killed in the fighting in Syria, and the Assad…
Children and Armed Conflict: The Indirect Toll
By Roland Paris On Monday, the United Nations released its annual report on children in armed conflict. Grisly…
Will the Middle East and North Africa Democratize? Part II
By Erica Chenoweth Following up on Part I from last week, two things. First, check out Page Fortna’s…
Will the Arab Spring Democratize the Mideast? (Or, We Didn’t Say It Wouldn’t)
By Page Fortna I’m tickled pink to have my research with Reyko Huang discussed by Erica Chenoweth in…
The Coup Was The Revolution
By Will H. Moore A quick tour of stories covering the recent national elections in Egypt reveals a couple…
Will the Middle East and North Africa Democratize? Part I
By Erica Chenoweth Dictators have fallen in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. The Syrian regime is against the…