This Is How ISIS Wants Us to Respond to the Paris Attacks. Let’s Not Do It.
By Barbara F. Walter One of the troubling features of the recent terrorist attacks on France, Russia, and…
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Puzzling Aspects of the US Debate on Syrian Refugees
Guest post by Jeremy Pressman One thing that struck me about the reaction in the United States to…
Divide and Conquer – The Long-Term Political Effects of Terrorism
By Thomas Zeitzoff and Anna Getmansky The recent attacks attributed to ISIS in Paris, Beirut, the Sinai, and…
Remember Daesh is a Network
By Deborah Avant With the downing of a Russian plane, suicide bombings in Lebanon, and carnage in Paris,…
Overconfidence and the War in Syria
Guest post by Dominic Johnson The attacks in Paris have elevated both the desire and the case for…
Don’t Let A Setback Become a Defeat
By Andrew Kydd The terrorist attacks in Paris are a stinging loss in the war against the Islamic…
The Strategy of ISIS: Logic or Lunacy?
By Barbara F. Walter Over the weekend, everyone has been asking the same question: why would ISIS bomb…
Is Bombing a Civilian Airliner a Game-Changer for the Islamic State?
By Erica Chenoweth for Denver Dialogues In an op-ed in Slate, Dan Byman suggests that if the Islamic…
Making Sense of Sinai: Attack or Opportunism?
By Joe Young What happened to the Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula? If the Egyptians…
Calculated or Emotional? How Insurgents Are Both Rational and Ideological
By Thomas Zeitzoff I just finished reading Richard Thaler’s excellent new book Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics. It…