Putting Ideas Behind Bars: Here’s Why It Doesn’t Work
Guest post by Christoph Dworschak and Christoph V. Steinert “We tried to bury them—we didn’t know they were…
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Revisiting the Emboldening Power of Nuclear Weapons
Guest post by Kyungwon Suh Do nuclear weapons make their possessors more aggressive? A series of high-profile aggressive…
Sustaining the Fight for Women’s Rights in Iran as Repression Tightens
Guest post by Yu-Ping Chang and Ghashia Kiyani The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in custody…
Civil Society Faces an Uphill Struggle to Defend Democracy
Guest post by Marianne Dahl, Sirianne Dahlum, Hanne Fjelde, and Ida Rudolfsen The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded this…
Five Questions About the Assassination of Ayman al-Zawahiri
By Rebecca Best and guest contributors Debra Leiter and Simanti Lahiri Last weekend, a US drone dropped two…
How Blowback by Armed Groups Is Turning Civil Wars into International Conflicts
By Peter Krause and guest contributor Nils Hägerdal The crescendo of missile and drone strikes into Saudi Arabia…
Can Israel Remain Both Neutral and Part of the West?
PVG Viewpoint by Michael Barnett Israel is getting some unwanted attention because of its reluctance to outrightly condemn…
From Manama to Baghdad and Kyiv: Limiting the Risk of Violent Intervention by Authoritarian Neighbors
Guest post by Erwin van Veen Much has been written over the past few years about the global…
How Do Governments Decide Which Groups Are “Terrorist Organizations”?
By Brian J. Phillips and Mirna El Masri US Senator Ted Cruz recently called for Yemen’s Houthis to…
Looking Back at 9/11
It’s been twenty years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Conventional wisdom holds that the tragic…