Consumers Beware: The Price of Avocados Is Higher Than You Think
Guest post by Chelsea Estancona and Lucía Tiscornia This post is part of a series on illicit economies,…
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Are Militaries More Respectful of Human Rights Than the Police?
Guest post by Gustavo Flores-Macías and Jessica Zarkin This post is part of a series on illicit economies,…
How Incumbents Hide Behind the Law to Subvert Elections
Guest post by David Szakonyi Voters generally do not approve of their leaders manipulating elections. In the just…
Can People Be Manipulated to Protest?
Guest post by Sarah J. Lockwood We live in an era of increasing protest, with large-scale, sustained social…
Internal Migration and Violent Conflict in Indonesia
Guest post by Isabelle Côté In late 2019, a wave of violence shook the mineral-rich region of Papua,…
Will Civil War in Ethiopia Spread?
Guest post by Nils-Christian Bormann Do civil wars spread—and where? Political scientists have demonstrated sizable evidence of contagion…
Civil Society to the Rescue?
By Evan Perkoski and Erica Chenoweth Widespread pro-democracy protests have engulfed Belarus over claims that the recent presidential…
Can International Organizations Help Prevent Civil Wars?
Guest post by Johannes Karreth and Jaroslav Tir. At the recent Kuwait International Conference on Reconstruction of Iraq,…
Measuring Weakness & Managing Piracy
By Bridget Coggins. Policy-makers and academics seem to have reached a consensus on the link between governance and…
Rough Patches on the Silk Road? The Geopolitics of the Belt and Road Initiative
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues. Note: This post draws on the author’s chapter in a recently released…