The Biggest Threat to the Middle East Isn’t ISIL. It’s Civil Wars.
By Barbara F. Walter The greatest threat to American interests in the Middle East doesn’t come from ISIL…
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What Do We Know, and Need to Know, About Successful Counterinsurgency?
Guest post by Eli Berman and Aila M. Matanock Imagine a counterinsurgency challenge: government forces (like the Iraqi…
Putin, Propaganda, and the Path to Peace in Ukraine
By Rudra Sil for Denver Dialogues The May 2015 Denver Dialogues symposium does a nice job of showing…
Unsilencing Pakistan: A Symposium on Nonviolent Activism Against Violence
By Devin Finn for Denver Dialogues Today marks the six-month anniversary of the massacre of 152 Pakistanis–133 of…
Political Violence and Humanitarian Technology
Guest post by Katja Lindskov Jacobsen Can humanitarian uses of new digital technologies always be expected to have benevolent…
Nonviolent Conflicts in 2014 You May Have Missed Because They Were Not Violent
By Erica Chenoweth Last week, Steven Pinker and Andy Mack wrote an article reassuring Slate readers that the…
The Pakistan Army’s Facebook War
By Paul Staniland Since June 15, the Pakistan Army has been waging Operation Zarb-e-Azb. This military offensive into…
Renewed Violence in Pakistan
By Erica Chenoweth Last night, the Pakistani Taliban (otherwise known as Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP) allegedly staged a…
Friday Puzzler: Why Support the Taliban?
By Barbara F. Walter Madiha Afzal, an economist at the University of Maryland, has conducted a fascinating public…
How a US Election Undermined Global Health
By Will H. Moore American President Barrack Obama will be inaugurated for a second term next month. Meanwhile,…