What We Know (and What We Don’t) About the Boston Marathon Bombings
By Joe Young In the days since the Boston bombings, rumors and speculation abound. As we wrote immediately…
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Terror in Boston
By Erica Chenoweth and Joseph K. Young Regardless of intention, today’s explosions in Boston have managed to terrorize.…
Researching While Black: Why Conflict Research Needs More African Americans (Maybe)
By Christian Davenport I had just flown into Rwanda around 2001/2 when someone came up to me and…
Mything Iraq: Ten Years And Little Learning
By Steve Saideman With the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq there has been and will be…
Will Charges and a Trial Follow? International Humanitarian Law and the “Wolf Brigade”
By Will H. Moore Back in fall of 2010, after US Private Bradley Manning passed classified US Army…
Movies About Political Violence to Watch… and a Few You Shouldn’t
By Joe Young I recently reviewed a paper that explained how to structure an International Relations course through…
Friday Puzzler: Why Threaten the US with Nuclear Attack?
By Barbara F. Walter Today’s puzzler is simple: Why would Kim Jong Un think it was a good idea…
Friday Puzzler: Twitter and War
By Barbara F. Walter Back in November, the Israeli Defense Forces fundamentally changed how governments chose to communicate…
How Not to Get Published in the Iran Review
By Andrew Kydd Occasionally an Iranian journalist sends me an email asking my opinion on various foreign policy…
Friday Puzzler: The Silence of the Drones
By Barbara F. Walter The most recent national survey by the Pew Research Center finds that over fifty…