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By Sarah Bakhtiari Are the U.S. and Russia stumbling to war? Graham Allison and Dimitri Simes argue that…
The Decline of Ethnic Politics? The UK Election and the Northern Ireland Party System
Guest post by Matthew Isaacs While the United Kingdom settles into another Conservative government (and exit pollsters reevaluate…
A Symposium on the Crisis in Ukraine
By Rachel Epstein for Denver Dialogues [getty src=”2641661?et=glM2D4y2SK9NIuYjYhPXlw&viewMoreLink=on&sig=glMwrKiLBTZFSXfbv9w0Tjn1E_0KvCC9VGO81Ld6Aps=&caption=true” width=”594″ height=”429″] It’s been well over a year since Russia…
Security Aid and the Counterterrorism Racket
Guest post by Andrew Boutton In the aftermath of terrorist attacks against Western targets, countries in which these…
Weekly Links
By Danny Hirschel-Burns For Somali refugees in Kenya’s Dabaab camp, ‘winning the lottery’ and resettling in a Western…
Reporting the Crisis: Baltimore, #FreddieGray, and the News and Social Media Reaction
Guest post by Jeffrey Ian Ross The recent tragic death of Freddie Gray while in Baltimore police custody…
Russia’s Coercive Energy Wars: Europe Strikes Back
Guest post by Ryan C. Maness Does Russia use energy as a political weapon? Gazprom, the stated owned-natural…
The “Resister’s Toolkit”
By Erica Chenoweth for Denver Dialogues In his article in the May 2015 issue of APSR, Evgeny Finkel…
Political Violence and Humanitarian Technology
Guest post by Katja Lindskov Jacobsen Can humanitarian uses of new digital technologies always be expected to have benevolent…
Is the Middle East Exceptional? The Power of Identity in Middle East Conflict
Guest post by Karen Bodnaruk Jazayeri The rise of the Islamic State, supported by Iraq’s politically marginalized Sunnis, has…