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A banner on a store called pattad reads: “pattad firmly defends China’s right to the Diaoyu Islands. / We will give a 15% discount to customers who yell THE DIAOYU ISLANDS BELONG TO CHINA! in the store / We will give a 20% discount to customers who yell JAPAN ALSO BELONGS TO CHINA!” This is […]

This is a guest post by Scott Weiner, a PhD student at George Washington University. ——— Last week, Political Violence @ A Glance ran a summary of a fascinating new academic paper in the American Sociological Review by Erica Chenoweth and Laura Dugan.  The paper argues that conciliatory actions – those which reward non-participation in terrorism – […]

This is a guest post from James Igoe Walsh , a political science professor at UNC-Charlotte. ——— America’s wars are increasingly fought by drones, not soldiers. Drones reduce the costs of conflict to the United States by eliminating the possibility of American military casualties. Does this make political leaders and the American public more willing to […]

This is a guest post from Tanisha Fazal, a political science professor at Columbia University, and Jessica Martini, a human rights and international trade attorney based in New York City. ———- To conduct research on terrorism and insurgency, it’s best to be able to talk to people.  Combing through incident reports is helpful, but often […]

This is a guest post from Scott Wolford of the University of Texas-Austin and Emily Ritter of the University of Alabama, both international relations scholars. —— The Guardian reports the US and the UK are considering offering Syrian president Bashar al Assad safe passage and possibly clemency for his alleged role in war crimes to […]

The following is a guest post from Kimberly Marten, who is a professor at Barnard College, Columbia University, and Acting Director of Columbia’s Harriman Institute.  She is the author of Warlords: Strong-Arm Brokers in Weak States (Cornell University Press, 2012). Creeping military intervention is underway in Syria’s civil war.  The State Department has been providing […]

Barbara Walter and I have started a new blog called Political Violence @ a Glance. Check out the About page to see, well, what we’re about. We have a great group of contributors lined up, a handful of posts already published, and plenty more on the way. Feel free to cruise by.

by Erica Chenoweth (@EricaChenoweth) and Jason Lyall (@jaylyall_red5.) Yesterday’s House of Representatives vote to defund political science research has yet again put many political scientists on the defensive. Arguing that the federal government is spending way too much money on political science research, the amendment’s sponsor, Congressman Jeff Flake (R-AZ), remarked, These studies might satisfy the curiosities […]