Last Tuesday, Rwanda’s high court sentenced Victoire Ingabire to eight years in prison for conspiring to harm the country through war and terror and minimizing the 1995 genocide. Some of the evidence used against her include questioning why no Hutu victims were...
In preparing for my spring semester course, a seminar for honors undergraduates on research methodologies, I've been paring down readings and reviewing potential books to add to my syllabus. My...
When time is short, attribution of links is the first casualty. Walter Russel Mead sees evidence of the "Anglosphere effect" in Australian, Canadian, and Indian relations. This reminds me that I am...
When governments offer concessions to dissident groups in the midst of a terror campaign, they often see an increase in violence take place afterwards. For example, between 1968 and 1977, attacks...
Audio from the Speculative Fiction and Pedagogy panel at the International Studies Association-Northeast 2012 convention.
Krauthammer says that Obama doesn't have a "mandate." In 2004 he argued that Bush had one. According to Krauthammer: [Obama] won by going very small, very negative," said Krauthammer, speaking on FOX News as throngs of Obama supporters danced in celebration over Obama's re-election victory. "This is not a mandate either in the numbers or the way he campaigned," warned Krauthammer, adding, "He did not campaign on any ideas, anything large, anything important. If memory serves, Bush did not wage a relentlessly positive campaign against Kerry. Moreover, consolidating the largest expansion of...