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Is Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood best understood, per the conventional wisdom, as either a largely stagnant movement or one that has followed a steady trajectory toward moderation? Or, as    More >

How do we know whether a peace operation has been successful? How is success defined? And, success for whom? Paul Diehl and Daniel Druckman explore the complexities of evaluating peace    More >

What happens when voices in your social media feed are not real people, but instead come from a coordinated, and dangerous, production line? How does a troll farm manufacture credibility,    More >

What sustains political order once legitimacy no longer secures authority and institutional purpose begins to thin? This is the central question animating Hollow Sovereignty. Dean Caivano    More >

Can the federal government actually, and beneficially, be reduced in size? That question has bedeviled US politics since the country's inception, and the gap between promises and results    More >

The Black Sea region has once again become a significant theater of geopolitical conflict, most dramatically as it has emerged as a battlefield in Ukraine’s struggle against Russian    More >

Although disarmament is a longstanding feature of the international system, it is often dismissed as utopian and remains largely understudied and undertheorized. To redress this gap, the    More >

How did a profession once centered on patient care become a profit-maximizing business—one that has generated soaring costs, increasingly poor access, and healthcare outcomes far below    More >

Since the 1990s, the US use of economic sanctions as a tool of statecraft has exploded—and both third-party states and the targets themselves have developed a range of    More >

Twenty years after Nelson Mandela commissioned the first HIV household survey in South Africa, this latest data collection undertaken by the Human Sciences Research Council and its partners    More >