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 ...

New Zealand rockers Capital Theatre recently released a music video for "Fait Accompli", from their Mike Clink (Guns N' Roses, Steve Vai) produced debut "A Hero's Journey", and to celebrate we asked ...

States that seek to expand their territories have three basic options: (i) brute force, (ii) coercion, or (iii) fait accompli. In a brute force scenario, the aggressor first defeats the target state ...

New Zealand rockers Capital Theatre have celebrated the release of their Mike Clink (Guns N' Roses, Steve Vai) produced debut album, "A Hero's Journey," by sharing a music video for the track, "Fait ...

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 ...