How Patterns of Territorial Control Explain Mass Killings in Syria and Iraq (and in Bosnia)
Guest post by Jessica Di Salvatore. On January 16th, the Islamic State abducted 400 civilians and killed dozens after…
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Federal Syria: It’s Time to Recognize Reality
Guest post by Eric Kaufmann. President Obama’s next major foreign-policy task is to move all parties toward a…
Seeing Flight as a Non-violent Option: One Way to Change the Discourse about the World’s 60 Million Refugees
By Erica Chenoweth and Hakim Young for Denver Dialogues Today, one in every 122 humans living on the…
Remember Daesh is a Network
By Deborah Avant With the downing of a Russian plane, suicide bombings in Lebanon, and carnage in Paris,…
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…
Deciphering Putin’s Aims in Syria
By Lionel Beehner Madeleine Albright once called the United States the “indispensable nation.” Interestingly, that pretty much sums…
Torgau, Syria?
By Andrew Kydd There is whole lot of fretting going on over Russia’s move to supply the Assad…
Tipping the Balance: The Role of Security Repertoires in Predicting Violence
Guest post by Ore Koren Does the presence of violent militias make civilian casualties more likely during conflict?…
Militant Proliferation and the Consequences of Fragmentation
Guest post by Evan Perkoski Contemporary irregular conflicts often share a common feature: they are fragmented. States are…
Militias in Syria & Iraq: A Blessing in Disguise?
By Barbara F. Walter Pro-government militias are proliferating in the civil wars in Syria and Iraq and this…