Category: Conflict & Security
169 Articles
- Conflict & Security
Bridging the Gender Divide is Key to US Global Fragility Strategy Implementation
As the Biden-Harris administration takes office, it will be tasked with the full implementation of the Global Fragility Act (GFA), which aims to tackle the root causes of…
April 6, 2021
- Conflict & Security
Putin Prioritizes Syria. Biden Should Too.
Neither massive domestic protests and economic woes, nor the pandemic and growing upheavals on Russia’s borders have stopped Russian president Vladimir Putin from increasing…
March 24, 2021
- Conflict & Security
After Christchurch: Hard Questions for Policymakers
Social Media-Fueled TerrorismOn March 15, 2019, a white nationalist terrorist shot and killed fifty-one people and injured forty more at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand…
February 27, 2021
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In 2020, Peru Became a Tinderbox
For the first nineteen years of the twenty-first century, Peru was a Latin American success story. Economic growth was rapid; poverty and inequality declined; democracy was…
February 19, 2021
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“Police Do Not Protect Me, My Female Friends Do”: Police Repression against Feminists in Mexico
The hashtag “la policía no me cuida, me cuidan mis amigas” has spread widely and rapidly across Mexico and Latin America. As in Latin America, Mexican feminists have used…
February 17, 2021
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The Algerian Counter-Revolution or the Obsolescence of Authoritarian Upgrading
When looking at the trajectory of the Algerian Hirak—the peaceful revolutionary mobilization that led to the resignation of former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika in 2019—one…
February 2, 2021
- Conflict & Security
A Very Ethiopian Tragedy: Tigray, the TPLF, and Cyclical History
The recent eruption of conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia’s northernmost province, is a deeply worrying development for Ethiopia itself as well as for the wider region. The launching…
January 28, 2021
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China’s Hypersonic Weapons
What are hypersonic weapons? Hypersonic weapons travel faster than Mach 5, or a speed of approximately 1.6 kilometers per second. Many traditional ballistic missiles re-enter…
January 27, 2021
- Conflict & Security
Russia and Turkey Deconflict Their Geopolitical Moves in the Caucasus
Two Rivals and Two Masters of the Caucasus The fog of war is gradually lifting from the battlefields around Nagorno-Karabakh, and although the contours of new geopolitical fault…
January 20, 2021
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The Overseen Factors Impacting the Afghan Peace Process
The Afghan peace process is promising. The current round of talks began in September 2020, following a US-Taliban agreement and US-Afghanistan Joint Declaration in February 2020.…
January 18, 2021