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conflict prevention in kenya: a strategic imperative, and a fading opportunity
Writing in the early months of the Obama administration, Mike Abramowitz and Lawrence Woocher identified mass atrocities prevention as a national security priority for U.S. foreign policy: Genocide’s...
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the icc and rule of law indicators in post-qaddafi libya
Earlier today, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir visited Libya, receiving a warm welcome from National Transitional Council leader Mustafa Abdel-Jalil. This is hardly the first demonstration of...
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mitigating small arms flows: thematic lessons from the international scene
Last Friday’s shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, CT, has sparked a recognizable groundswell of public support for renewed gun violence prevention efforts. This process should be...
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grand blog tarkin: the batman and the state
Kelsey Atherton, who tweets at @AthertonKD, was kind enough to feature my debut on his excellent poliscifi group blog, Grand Blog Tarkin. Here’s the original link. For more SR analyses of international...
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private security and public violence in nascent states: a lesson from...
I saw Django Unchained last week. For those who haven’t monitored the vibrant cultural conversation on Quentin Tarantino’s posture towards slavery’s historiography, it’s worth following–Tarantino’s...
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are mass atrocities modern?
As an idea, modernity is as uncertain as it is widespread. Modernity has come to mean a particular time, a particular space, and a particular way of thinking about the human ecosystem. It’s the most...
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why did mass killing increase in 2013?
For Joseph Brodsky, mass violence was a close, unwanted companion. The Russian poet’s career began in earnest under repression’s shadow, in the exiled cold of the northern Arkhangelsk region. In 1964,...
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vignettes of war, in the classic sense
Earlier today, during a Congressional hearing on the Obama administration’s declared plan for (limited) military intervention in Syria, John Kerry defended the administration’s plan as not “war in the...
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