On Narcissism and War
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Repression, Regime Consolidation, and Latin America’s Authoritarian (Re)Turn
By Kai Thaler for Denver Dialogues. This week, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is planning to attend the United…
What’s So Important About Territorial Disputes in International Relations?
Guest post by Sam Ghatak, Aaron Gold, and Brandon Prins. Recent events demonstrate how difficult territorial disputes are…
Symposium: Oil and International Politics
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues Oil is the world’s most widely traded commodity and the key input…
Context, Confirmation Bias, and the Crash of MetroJet 9286
By Allison Hodgkins With ISIS-inspired attacks cropping up almost every week, the October 31, 2015, crash of MetroJet…
Deciphering Putin’s Aims in Syria
By Lionel Beehner Madeleine Albright once called the United States the “indispensable nation.” Interestingly, that pretty much sums…
Russia, not Neo-Fascists, Poses the Main Obstacle to Peace in Ukraine
By Steven Pifer for Denver Dialogues I read with interest Rudra Sil’s July post “Putin, Propaganda, and the…
What Young Ukrainians Are Fighting For
By Vera Mironova and guest contributor Sam Whitt Answering the Call to Arms in Ukraine What compels ordinary…
There Will Be No Civil War in Ukraine, And Putin Knows It
By Barbara F. Walter Last Wednesday Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that Ukraine “is as close to…
Fleet Weak
By Lionel Beehner There is much talk of Russia as a rising naval power, with its seizure of Crimea,…