Good scholarship doesn’t need to fit within a 2×2 matrix, but it sure helps make sense of things when it does. It’s in this spirit of conceptual clarity that I developed the diagram below depicting ...

Dan Altman’s research on the fait accompli in terrestrial disputes notes that James D. Fearon, in reviewing the literature on strategic interaction during crises, drew a basic distinction between ...

Although the outcome of Russia’s rapid military deployment in the Crimea is not yet certain, this incident and Russian military action against Georgia in 2008 may offer non-Western powers a potential ...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will not allow "terror to take root" or "fait accompli situations" next to its borders, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday, a day ...

“We are approaching a point where…the international community will no longer have any realistic option to veto an Iranian decision to build nuclear weapons.” As generally expected, the Almaty talks ...

Sir, There is an alternative interpretation of the Rescript of Honorius in 410 (Letters, Mark Hudson, June 9) provided by Paul Johnson in his book The Offshore Islanders published in 1972. He argues ...