Why Have Military Courts Become Such a Popular Tool of Repression?
Guest post by Brett J. Kyle and Andrew G. Reiter In November, the Taliban government in Afghanistan announced…
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A Coup in Jordan? Why Even Fabricated Plots Matter
Guest post by Salah Ben Hammou and Rosalie Rubio On April 3, 2021, Jordanian authorities claimed to have…
Humiliation is the Key to Understanding Widespread Rebellion
Guest post by Mustafa Kirişçi and Ibrahim Kocaman George Floyd suffered the humiliation of dying when a police…
Trends in Militarized Policing: New Data and Puzzles
Guest post by Erica De Bruin In recent months, protests in support of Black Lives Matter—and the federal…
The Egyptian Government has Banned Yellow Vests. Should it?
By Dawn Brancati and Adrián Lucardi. The Egyptian government banned the sale of yellow vests this week in…
Migration in the Mediterranean: A Second Crisis of Europe’s Making
By Devon Cone and Kelsey P. Norman for Denver Dialogues. EU heads of state met two weeks ago…
States are Far Less Likely to Engage in Mass Violence Against Nonviolent Uprisings than Violent Uprisings
By Erica Chenoweth and Evan Perkoski for Denver Dialogues. What drives governments to crack down on and kill…
Islam, Religiosity, Politics, and Support for Anti-US Violent Extremism in the Arab World
Guest post by James A. Piazza Islam is routinely depicted as a violent religion in US political discourse and…
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…
Where is the Muslim Gandhi?
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues Recently, the Korbel School’s Center for Middle East Studies hosted a dialogue…