The King is Dead. Long Live the King.
By Bridget Coggins Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah died last Friday. Salman bin Abdulaziz has been the Crown Prince…
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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…
Senate Report on Torture Seems Unlikely to Lead to Greater Accountability
By Leslie Vinjamuri The executive summary of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s report on torture, released…
The North Korean Paper Trail
By Leslie Vinjamuri Last Tuesday, a United Nations General Assembly committee condemned North Korea for its appalling human rights…
Do You Hear What I Hear?*: Kim Jong-un’s DPRK and the Problem with Signals
By Bridget Coggins What does it mean when a regime executes its own elites? What information does it…
What Negotiations with Iran Tell Us About North Korea
By Barbara F. Walter Obama’s decision to negotiate with Iran over the country’s nuclear program reveals a lot about…
Friday Puzzler: Why Don’t North Koreans Rebel?
By Barbara F. Walter With all the talk about Kim Jong-un and nuclear weapons, another puzzle goes unanswered.…
What’s Up with the Heated Foreign Policy on the Korean Peninsula?
By Will H. Moore Political scientists used to be interested in the extent to which bellicose (or cooperative)…
Keep Calm, Korean
By Andrew Kydd South Korea recently announced that it would target the North Korean “command leadership” in response…
Feels Like the Third Time*
By Andrew Kydd North Korea has detonated its third nuclear device and its first to convincingly split some…