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…
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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…
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…
Secessionism: The Use of Violence and International Recognition
By Bridget Coggins As part of our “Would Someone Please Explain This to Me” series, Carter asked: “This…
Why Hamas Escalated, When Before They Didn’t
By Allison Beth Hodgkins Just a short while ago it seemed that the Islamic militant group Hamas had everything…
The Crimea Crisis and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Guest post by Ehud Eiran A Russian-French confrontation in the Holy Land in the middle of the 19th century…
Reconciliation Today, More Talk Tomorrow
By Allison Beth Hodgkins Tuesday April 29, 2014 has come and gone without the conclusion of an Israeli-Palestinian peace…
How John Kerry’s Framework Will Make a Palestinian Wedding Singer a Significant Threat to Peace
By Allison Beth Hodgkins When US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Jerusalem last week, Benjamin Netanyahu…
Oslo’s Enduring Commitment Problem
By Allison Beth Hodgkins Why would anyone want to read another analysis of the commitment problems lurking in…