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Iran at a Crossroads: Legitimacy, External Pressure and Regional Order
What originated as a challenge to domestic legitimacy in Iran has increasingly taken on the character of a regional risk-management issue. As…
The Indo-Pacific’s New Fault Line: Supply Chains, Not Sea Lanes, Are Drawing the Lines
The late 2010s and early 2020s witnessed a marked intensification of U.S.–China trade tensions, with the imposition and subsequent recalibration of tariffs…
The Balkans are not just a geographical region- EU’s outlook on the Balkans
“It will be in the interest of Europe to fasten the positive scenario of gathering the Balkans under the EU and NATO…
The relationship between the Biden administration and the future Israeli government
The relationship between the Biden administration and the future Israeli government The results of the recent elections in Israel have been, and…
The Forgotten War: Genocide of the Yazidi people
While most of the world has not heard of the Yazidi, the Islamic State hunts them down for one specific reason: their religious beliefs….
Why the killing of Qasem Soleimani isn’t war
Qasem Soleimani, who was the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force was killed in a US drone strike…