Syria and the International Criminal Court
By Leslie Vinjamuri Last week, pressure to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court resurfaced, this time with…
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Searching for Trends: Analyzing Patterns in Conflict Violence Data
Guest post by Megan Price and Anita Gohdes With the publishing of GDELT[1] there has been an exciting…
Norms and Attitudes in the Midst of Civil War: Experimental and Survey Evidence from Syria
Guest post by Vera Mironova and Sam Whitt How do individuals adapt to the dangers of life in…
A Not-So-Bad Solution to Syria
By Barbara F. Walter One of the tragedies of the Syrian civil war is that there appear to…
Message in a Barrel
By Allison Beth Hodgkins In its ongoing assaults on rebel strongholds, since mid-December the Syrian military has been making…
The Syrian Refugee Crisis and Conflict Spillover
Guest post by Idean Salehyan and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch The Syrian refugee crisis has been heartbreaking to watch. According to…
New Nonviolence Article, New Journal!
By Oliver Kaplan Do you remember the movie Tombstone? Where Wyatt Earp and co. take on the band…
Friday Puzzler: Why Would Assad Starve Thousands of Syrians To Death?
By Erica Chenoweth There is harrowing news out of Moadamiya, Syria in the last few weeks. There are still…
Hedging by Rejection: Divining Saudi Arabia’s Surprise UN Security Council About Face for Clues of Regional Realignments
By Allison Beth Hodgkins In a region where everything seems to be standing on its head and doing…
The Four Things We Know About How Civil Wars End (and What This Tells Us About Syria)
By Barbara F. Walter The Obama Administration continues to insist that it would like to see a diplomatic solution…