Is Political Protest Contagious?
By Dawn Brancati and Adrián Lucardi Large, anti-government protests have taken place in recent months on every continent…
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Iran’s Long Shadow in Syria
Guest post by Khaled Terkawi. When I was in the old Homs city in 2012, the rebels arrested…
Three Lessons from the History of Foreign-Imposed Regime Change
Guest post by Melissa Willard-Foster. It took only minutes for the Trump Administration to support Venezuela’s opposition leader,…
Prospect of Peace in Yemen: What We Know from Social Science Research
Guest post by Matthew Hauenstein and Madhav Joshi. Representatives of the Yemeni government and the Houthi rebels met…
Will Withdrawing Ties to Venezuela’s Repressive Regime Protect or Harm Human Rights?
Guest post by Gina Lei Miller, Andrew Vonasch, and Ryan Welch. Food and medicine shortages, hyperinflation, and severe…
The Iraqi Humans at the Heart of Conflict
Guest post by Jeremy Pressman. In “Iraq’s Post-ISIS Campaign of Revenge,” Ben Taub chronicles the current Iraqi government…
How to Encourage Shiites and Sunnis to Get Along? Lessons from a Study in Lebanon.
Guest post by Han Il Chang and Leonid Peisakhin. Relations between Shiites and Sunnis are strained across much…
Repression, Regime Consolidation, and Latin America’s Authoritarian (Re)Turn
By Kai Thaler for Denver Dialogues. This week, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is planning to attend the United…
How Assad Won the Syrian Civil War Before It Began
Guest post by Eric Mosinger. In recent months, many observers of the still-smoldering civil war in Syria have…
All Stick, No Carrots: The Shortsighted Geopolitics of the Iran Sanctions
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues. The Trump administration, having withdrawn the United States from the Joint Comprehensive…