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Islam, Religiosity, Politics, and Support for Anti-US Violent Extremism in...
Guest post by James A. Piazza Islam is routinely depicted as a violent religion in US political discourse and Muslims are widely regarded by the American public as prone to violence and extremism....
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What Happens When Peacekeepers Come Home (Spoiler: No One Really Knows)?
Guest post by Jonathan D. Caverley and Jesse Dillon Savage. In November last year, President Obama announced a plan to dramatically increase the number of peacekeepers available to the UN. This is good...
View ArticleLessons in Failure: Libya Five Years Later
By Danielle L. Lupton. The 2011 NATO-led intervention in Libya was initially hailed as a success. The record five years later, however, shows that the intervention was instead a dismal failure....
View ArticleNuclear Modernization and Nuclear Disarmament
Guest post by Scott Wisor. President Barack Obama has become the first sitting American President to visit Hiroshima, following on US Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit last month. Both Obama and...
View ArticleBut Still, Like Air, I’ll Rise
Guest post by Cassy Dorff. Sunday morning is a time often reserved for the absence of rushing, for solace and calm, for spiritual replenishment or for coffee, pancakes, and newspapers. This Sunday, we...
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Civilian Protection by Fiat
By Oliver Kaplan for Denver Dialogues. Protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photo via Fibonacci Blue. Recent months have seen many tragedies for civilians both in and out of war zones, yet there is...
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US Security Assistance and Terrorism: An Inconvenient Truth?
Guest post by Ed Coughlan. According to the Security Assistance Monitor (SAM) dataset, US assistance to foreign military, police, and other security forces has jumped from $5 billion in 2000 to $15...
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Is Terrorism on the Rise?
By Joe Young. Is terrorism on the rise? This seems like an easy question to answer. It is not. I (along with other experts in the area) was recently asked by Politifact.com to assess the truthfulness...
View ArticleTrump and Diplomacy: Time to Eat Some Spinach
By Elizabeth N. Saunders and James H. Lebovic. In the wake of the election—and Barack Obama’s last overseas trip as president—Donald Trump and the world are confronting the reality that he is the new...
View ArticleThe Liberal Arts as Antidote to Political Extremism in the Middle East
By Allison Hodgkins and Ted Purinton. With ISIS-inspired terror attacks becoming an almost routine occurrence, there is renewed attention on developing strategies for countering violent extremism...
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