Elections and Coup Risk in Zimbabwe One Year after the Coup d’État
Guest post by Jonathan Powell and Clayton Besaw. The removal of Robert Mugabe from Zimbabwe’s presidency in November…
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Conflict and Contagions: Disease Burden and Civil War
Cullen S. Hendrix for Denver Dialogues. The Democratic Republic of Congo is experiencing what is now the seventh…
How Assad Won the Syrian Civil War Before It Began
Guest post by Eric Mosinger. In recent months, many observers of the still-smoldering civil war in Syria have…
Between Authoritarianism and Democracy
By Alexander Beresford, Marie E. Berry, and Laura Mann for Denver Dialogues. For decades, political scientists have debated…
Challenging Continuums of Violence: #NiUnaMenos and the Transformative Power of Feminist Action in Argentina
By Olivia Storz for Denver Dialogues. María grew up in a heavily Catholic suburb of Buenos Aires under…
What We Know – and Don’t Know – about Religious Civil Wars
Guest post by Desirée Nilsson and Isak Svensson. Ongoing civil wars in Syria, Mali, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Thailand,…
When Fighting Breaks Out – Explaining Subnational Variation in Civil War Onset
Guest post by Ore Koren. Civil war onset is often correctly associated with weak states, such as Afghanistan.…
Prospects for Peace in South Sudan
By Patrick Pierson. Late last week, US Deputy Ambassador Michele Sison stood before the UN Security Council and…
Fish Wars: How Fishing Can Start – and Stop – Conflict
Guest post by Sarah Glaser. On February 18, the US sent naval ships to the South China Seas,…
Living Off the Land: Food and the Logic of Violence in Civil War
Guest post by Ore Koren. Does food security increase the frequency of civilian killings in some developing countries?…