Tag: War & Conflict
177 Articles
- Conflict & Security
Collateral Damage No More: Urban Conflict, Explosive Weapons, and a Case Study in Multilateral Norm Building
Twenty years after the UN Security Council first adopted the resolution on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict—and 70 years after the Geneva Conventions—the…
November 21, 2019
- Conflict & Security
False Positives in Thai Counterinsurgency
The insurgency began in January 2004. It currently involves three-and-a-half Muslim-Malay majority provinces in southern Thailand and has exacted a heavy human cost—roughly 7…
November 15, 2019
- Conflict & Security
Turkey, Erdogan, and the Kurds: War as a State-Building Strategy
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are an assembly of militias with Kurdish forces at the core. They are currently resisting Turkey’s widely condemned military assault on…
November 14, 2019
- Conflict & Security
The South Caucasus Factor of the United States-Russia-Iran Triangle
Moscow officially intervened in Syria in September 2015 to prevent “terrorists” from coming to Russia and staging attacks; in Moscow’s narrative, “thousands” of…
September 16, 2019
- Conflict & Security
How and Why the Russian-Iranian-Hezbollah Axis Has Won the War in Syria
As opposed to Western powers, the pro-Assad bloc set political objectives that were compatible with the military means. Indeed, it has been a classic Clausewitzian limited war.…
May 5, 2019
- Global Governance
Is Sustainable Peace in South Sudan a Realistic Expectation?
To resolve the South Sudanese conflict, it is important to acknowledge the role that the history of conflict in Sudan plays today. Although South Sudan gained independence from…
April 15, 2019
- Society & Culture
Nationalism in South Asia and the “Problem of Kashmir”
In the most recent iteration of this conflict, revolving largely around the disputed status of Kashmir, India responded to a deadly terrorist attack on a convoy of its soldiers…
April 4, 2019
- Science & Technology
In the DR Congo, A Failure to Protect is a Failure to Contain
Amid political instability, weakened medical infrastructure, and bloody civil conflict, the country’s current Ebola outbreak has rightly been called a “perfect storm.” In…
April 3, 2019
- Society & Culture
Preventing Violence in Ukraine Following Church Independence
The Ukrainian church’s independence – proclaimed by Orthodoxy’s leading prelate, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I – followed another escalation in Russia’s Ukrainian…
February 7, 2019
- Conflict & Security
The Weaponization of Minorities in Syria and Beyond
Major regional players – such as Turkey, Iran, Russia, and the United States – have utilized minorities as a tool of influence, thus jeopardizing both the social fabric of…
January 9, 2019