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Nov 17, 2025
Big changes are afoot in the South Caucasus. Back in August, in a move that passed largely unnoticed in the American press, the Trump administration pulled off a major diplomatic...
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Oct 23, 2025
This year, imports of Russian energy actually increased in seven major European countries.
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Oct 11, 2025
Is the Gaza war truly over? On October 8, President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas had come to terms on a deal to cease hostilities and exchange hostages, something...
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Sep 8, 2025
Just a few months ago, U.S.-India relations were on an upswing.
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Aug 26, 2025
Iran’s political opposition is in no position to challenge the regime. That doesn’t mean popular dissent has gone away.
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Aug 6, 2025
With the return of the Trump administration, the concept of great power competition has seen something of a renaissance. To its credit, the view of China as a predatory global player...
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Jul 8, 2025
Last month's conflict between Israel and Iran has only just concluded, but its results are already being felt throughout the Middle East—and beyond.
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Jun 23, 2025
A recent conference in Moscow laid bare the imperialist ideologies at the heart of Russian foreign policy.
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Jun 14, 2025
In the early morning hours of June 13, the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched Operation Rising Lion—a sustained campaign of airstrikes...
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Jun 5, 2025
Not all that long ago, warnings about a creeping Islamist infiltration in Europe were widely ridiculed as conspiracy theories or, worse, "Islamophobia." In previous years, when...
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May 5, 2025
These are difficult days for Ukraine. More than three years into Russia's war of aggression, the country faces redoubled resolve from Moscow, as the Kremlin pushes to maximize its...
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Apr 29, 2025
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Apr 21, 2025
As every tourist who has strayed into a bazaar or souk knows, Middle Easterners drive a hard bargain. And the Iranians, with their long history of strategy and commerce, are...
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Apr 14, 2025
If its imperial vision isn’t decisively defeated, any peace agreement with Russia over Ukraine is guaranteed to be merely temporary.
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Apr 1, 2025
On March 20, Iranians in Iran and in the diaspora commemorated Nowruz, the Persian New Year. Typically, U.S. administrations have used the occasion to practice some soft power...
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Mar 3, 2025
When the Soviet Union collapsed nearly a quarter-century ago, it led to triumphalism about the "end of history" and the ultimate victory of liberal democracy over other forms of...
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Feb 21, 2025
