Silencing the Shinawatras
How the Impeachment Will Stall Thailand’s Political Progress February 10, 2015 Matt Wheeler Summary: The impeachment of former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra threatens to derail more than her...
View ArticleHow to End Piracy
Lessons from the Last Decade February 11, 2015 Conor Seyle Summary: Governments have traditionally combatted piracy with brute military force. More recently, however, states have opted for a different...
View ArticleNothing but the Truth
Brazil's Truth Commission Looks Back February 26, 2015 Kathryn Sikkink and Bridget Marchesi Summary: In December 2014, Brazil’s National Truth Commission completed what may be Latin America’s last...
View ArticleHard Power, Soft Power, and Energy Power
The New Foreign Policy Tool March 3, 2015 Michael T. Klare Summary: The debate over whether U.S. interests abroad are better served by hard power or soft power is perennial. Now there is a third...
View ArticleDark Days for Civil Society
What's Going Wrong—And How Data Can Help March 11, 2015 Sarah E. Mendelson Summary: Government harassment of independent organizations is as old as the state system itself, but recent intimidation...
View ArticlePrisoner's Dilemma
Inside Brazil's Vila de Dois Rios Prison March 19, 2015 Robert Gay Summary: Brazilian prisons were created—and are run by—drug cartels. An inmate who became a leader of a criminal faction tells his...
View ArticlePeople's Court?
The Palestinian Authority Joins the ICC March 31, 2015 Timothy William Waters Summary: For the Palestinian Authority, joining the International Criminal Court is part of a larger effort to...
View ArticleChina’s Island Builders
The People’s War At Sea April 9, 2015 Andrew S. Erickson and Conor M. Kennedy Summary: Recent satellite images show that the Spratly islands are growing at a staggering pace. Tons of sand, rocks,...
View ArticleThe Good News About Spying
Obama, the NSA, and the Future of Intelligence April 13, 2015 Timothy H. Edgar Summary: Since 2013, when Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA had been spying on private communications on a mass scale,...
View ArticleToo Small to Care in Gambia?
Banjul's Hidden Human Rights Crisis April 13, 2015 Daniel Bekele and Jeffrey Smith Summary: Since the attempted coup in December, six Gambian soldiers, including the three sentenced to death, have...
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