How John Kerry’s Framework Will Make a Palestinian Wedding Singer a Significant Threat to Peace
By Allison Beth Hodgkins When US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Jerusalem last week, Benjamin Netanyahu…
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How the Replication Debate Applies to Terrorism Studies
Guest post by Peter Henne and Patrick James The replication debate currently underway in the scientific community is…
Why Such Sparse Coverage of Africa’s Wars?
By Barbara F. Walter Over the past two+ years, the war in Syria has dominated policy debates and newspaper…
What Negotiations with Iran Tell Us About North Korea
By Barbara F. Walter Obama’s decision to negotiate with Iran over the country’s nuclear program reveals a lot about…
Criminal or Terrorist?
By Steve Saideman We do not know much really about this weekend’s attack at LAX, so it is really…
Why Obama Will Let Iran Enrich Uranium
By Barbara F. Walter Yesterday, I finally had a chance to sit down and analyze what I think will…
The Logic Behind Assad’s Use of Chemical Weapons
By Barbara F. Walter Last week I asked why Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons even after Obama had drawn…
Why the CW Inspection Plan Doesn’t Have to be Perfect, or Even Close, to Succeed
By Page Fortna As the Obama administration and the world contemplate a plan to secure Syria’s chemical weapons,…
Friday Puzzler: The Logic of Chemical Weapons
By Barbara F. Walter Over the last two weeks, the policy world and the media have fixated on…
Do Interventions End Repressive Spells? Insights for Syria from Previous Attempts, 1976-2003
By Christian Davenport and Ben Appel It is said that those who ignore history are doomed repeat prior mistakes.…