What An Afghan Warlord-Turned Vice President Tells Us About Military Intervention and State Building
Guest post by Romain Malejacq. Last month, American officials denied Afghan warlord-turned Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum a…
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Terrorism, Spoilers, and the Barriers to Resolving Civil Wars
By Joe Young. For a change, the news out of Colombia is good. A seemingly endless civil war…
Modeling Piracy: A Bridge Between the Academic and Policy Communities
By Andrew Scott for Denver Dialogues This January, the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy hosted…
Fashioning a Response to Terror: Action versus Overreaction
By Rachel A. Epstein for Denver Dialogues A Symposium with Deborah Avant, Sarah Glaser and Martin Rhodes In…
Sleeper Agents or Big Yawn? Waiting for Returned Foreign Fighters
Guest post by David Malet. Western governments, increasingly alarmed by ISIS-inspired attacks in the West and fearing the…
Does Emergency Food Assistance Prolong Conflict?
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues If the first casualty of war is the truth, the second is…
State Responses to Local Conflict: Providing Security or Protecting Interests?
By Emma Elfversson When violence erupted in late 2014 between local communities in Turkana, Kenya, where oil was recently…
The Crisis Around the Corner
By Patrick Pierson Whether ISIS, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or continued unrest in Libya, one doesn’t have to look…
Financing Rebellion Through Maritime Piracy
Guest post by Ursala Daxecker and Brandon Prins In June 2008, a floating production storage and offloading vessel…
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…