The Liberal Arts as Antidote to Political Extremism in the Middle East
By Allison Hodgkins and Ted Purinton. With ISIS-inspired terror attacks becoming an almost routine occurrence, there is renewed…
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Living Among 20 Million Muslims
Post by Allison Beth Hodgkins. The assumption undergirding the Republican nominee’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the United…
Terrorism’s Media-Politics Complex
Guest post by Brian Forst. The massacre of people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice was tragic enough. No…
Bending (False) Binaries: A Sociological Plea for Deconstruction
By Marie Berry. “The moral cogency of a human rights narrative is compelling but partial: it is incomplete…
Nuclear Modernization and Nuclear Disarmament
Guest post by Scott Wisor. President Barack Obama has become the first sitting American President to visit Hiroshima,…
Symposium: Oil and International Politics
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues Oil is the world’s most widely traded commodity and the key input…
Defeating ISIS in Egypt Won’t Reduce Violence
Guest post by Stephanie Dornschneider. Giulio Regeni was a doctoral student at the University of Cambridge. He conducted…
The Migration-Gender-Insecurity Nexus
By Marie Berry for Denver Dialogues In the past few weeks, reports about sexual violence in connection with…
Deciphering Putin’s Aims in Syria
By Lionel Beehner Madeleine Albright once called the United States the “indispensable nation.” Interestingly, that pretty much sums…
The Policy Prescriptions of Pope Francis
By Barbara F. Walter Pope Francis has spoken surprisingly little about political violence. What he has said, however,…