Friday Puzzler: Obama’s Public Displeasure With Israel Seems Like a Good Thing. Why Do People Think It Isn’t?
By Barbara F. Walter The Obama administration is clearly unhappy with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s campaign antics over the…
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Waiting for Barry-O: Divining Abbas’ Next Move
By Allison Beth Hodgkins Elections, like fighting, are a pretty good way of resolving information problems. I spent…
How Did Guerrilla Violence Shape the 2014 Presidential Election in Colombia?
Guest post by Michael Weintraub, Thomas Flores, and Juan Vargas Violence sadly has become a regular feature of…
Law and Power in the Agency Relationship or Why Boehner’s Blessing Bibi Is Bad for Bargaining
By Allison Beth Hodgkins There is much to be said about the possible repercussions of Speaker of the…
What The Iranian Nuclear Negotiations Tell Us About Soft Diplomatic Deadlines
Guest post by Matthew Cebul The Iranian nuclear negotiations and the U.S. sanctions regime are a perennial hot…
Does Conflict Correlate with Better Cuisine?
By Lionel Beehner Food has always been a potent symbol of international politics. Images of Soviet-era bread lines…
Do Revelations of Injustice Increase Violence?
By Erica Chenoweth Critics of the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s use of…
Ride on the Peace Bandwagon
By Allison Beth Hodgkins There are no commemorative coins marking the twentieth anniversary of Jordan’s 1994 peace treaty…
Israel’s Strategic Goal
Guest post by Jeremy Pressman Part of me is quite sympathetic to Erica Chenoweth’s framing of the current…
Building a Better Cease-Fire
By Page Fortna The collapse of the cease-fire in the Israeli-Gaza conflict, less than 2 hours into what…