More Than Reporting: Media Portrayal of Protests Can Impact Their Success (and Failure)
Guest post by Pearce Edwards and Daniel Arnon In recent months, a wave of mass protests has broken…
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Fissures in Sisi’s Egypt, and the New Wave of Protests Across the Middle East
Guest post by Kelsey Norman Egypt has arguably seen the most heavy handed retrenchment of authoritarianism in the…
Propaganda is Changing the Face of Modern Warfare: Here’s What We Can Do About It
Guest post by Tucker Johnson. Deep in the Colombian jungle in December 2011, an advertising firm contracted by…
How US Military Aid Can Backfire
Guest post by Daniel Karell and Sebastian Schutte. Can military forces mitigate insurgent activity—“win hearts and minds”—by implementing…
Children for Hire
Guest post by Christopher Faulkner. Last week marked the 19th anniversary of the Optional Protocol to the Convention…
What We Can Learn from Looking at Private Security Across Time and Space
By Deborah Avant and Kara Kingma Neu for Denver Dialogues. We know a lot about private security from…
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,…
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…
The Case of the Missing Dictators
By Barbara F. Walter. Two weeks ago I asked why so many African dictators resigned in the short…
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…