Do Revelations of Injustice Increase Violence?
By Erica Chenoweth Critics of the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s use of…
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States of Fear and Killing AFROzilla
By Christian Davenport Over the last few incidents involving the police and African Americans, we have repeatedly been…
Who is Doing What in Counter-ISIS Campaign?
By Steve Saideman The Atlantic Council has an interesting graphic about the missions in/over Syria/Iraq. It is a…
Friday Puzzler
By Barbara F. Walter A fascinating study was just published in International Organization by four researchers at UCSD. The study…
Middle East Misconceptions That Are Messing Up US Foreign Policy
By Barbara F. Walter Violence in the Middle East has a way of tapping into one-dimensional reactions from…
The US Won’t Declare War on ISIS
By Tanisha M. Fazal Following President Obama’s recent address laying out a strategy deploying airstrikes and advisers to…
Dissecting Obama’s Four-Point Strategy Against ISIL
By Sara Bjerg Moller On Wednesday evening, President Obama took to the airwaves to announce his much-awaited strategy…
Mythbusting the Burden Sharing Problem
By Steve Saideman Yes, NATO countries do not spend equally on defense. NATO countries varied quite significantly in…
The Reports of War’s Demise Have Been Somewhat Exaggerated
By Tanisha M. Fazal To many, current conflicts in Iraq, Syria, Ukraine and Gaza make the world seem…
Averting the Next Ferguson: One Simple Solution
Guest post by Zoltan Hajnal It appears that violence in Ferguson is fading away. That is certainly a…