Why Syria’s 60,000 Deaths Should Not Shock Us
Guest post by Lionel Beehner The United Nations has reported that the conflict in Syria has exceeded 60,000 fatalities,…
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PV Thought of the Week: Can Apps “Inform” the Public?
By Erica Chenoweth I was struck by this recent story about Apple rejecting a proposed iOS game called…
Evading Invasion: Syria’s Chemical Weapons and Obama’s Audience Costs
By Erica D. Borghard and Jack Snyder Syria’s recent chemical weapons activity has raised the specter of audience…
Political Violence Thought of the Week
By Erica Chenoweth The Obama administration has recognized the Syrian opposition, rather than the Assad regime, as the…
Will Assad Use His Chemical Weapons?
By Taylor Marvin The risk of chemical weapons use by the Assad regime appears to be increasing. The New…
Syria: The Turning Tide
By Timothy D. Sisk Daily news reports confirm that the tide is quickly turning against Syria’s brutal Assad…
Political Violence Thought of the Week
By Erica Chenoweth Yesterday, British Prime Minister David Cameron once again floated the idea of giving Bashar al-Assad…
Political Violence Thought of the Week
By Erica Chenoweth Following last weekend’s questionable ceasefire (the emphasis was more on the “fire” than the “cease”…
Temporary Cease-Fire in Syria
By Page Fortna I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t expect the four day Id al-Adha cease-fire in…
Refugees, Transnational Rebels, and the Syrian Civil War
Guest post by Idean Salehyan The Syrian conflict has sparked one of the world’s worst refugee crises, as over 300,000…