Friday Puzzler: Why Lie About Benghazi?
By Barbara F. Walter It’s now increasingly clear that Obama knew as early as the evening of September…
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On the Perils of Red Lines
By Erica Chenoweth Our very own contributor Dan Byman has an op-ed in the Sunday New York Times…
Do Red Lines on WMD Use Matter?
Guest post by Lionel Beehner Do red lines matter? The Obama administration has faced mounting criticism for setting a…
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…
Political Violence Thought of the Week
By Erica Chenoweth In his Tuesday State of the Union address, President Obama made a revealing comment about his…
Friday Puzzler: Obama’s Surprising Silence on Morsi’s Grab For Power
By Barbara F. Walter One of the puzzles surrounding Egyptian President Morsi’s very undemocratic move to expand his…
How a US Election Undermined Global Health
By Will H. Moore American President Barrack Obama will be inaugurated for a second term next month. Meanwhile,…
Evading Invasion: Syria’s Chemical Weapons and Obama’s Audience Costs
By Erica D. Borghard and Jack Snyder Syria’s recent chemical weapons activity has raised the specter of audience…
Political Violence Thought of the Week
By Erica Chenoweth The Obama administration has recognized the Syrian opposition, rather than the Assad regime, as the…
Invest in Minesweepers
By Andrew Kydd I just attended an interesting forum sponsored by MadPac, the UW Madison pro-Israel group, on…