World Affairs

Beyond Oil and Uncle Sam: MBS's Decade of Bold Reforms

Can economic power-brokering overcome decades of repression and human rights abuses? Karen...

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Are Saudi-Israel Talks Dead in the Water?

Saudi Arabia has embarked on a bold vision of innovation, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s...

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Poverty? Climate Disaster? Are World Bank Bonds the Solution?

By 2030, around 600 million people will be struggling with extreme poverty. And the effects of...

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Is US Wealth Inequality Undermining Democracy?

What do you need to know about wealth to understand structural inequality in America? Becoming...

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Secretary Robert Gates on Israel’s Retaliation, and What Biden Does Next

Thousands have been killed in the ongoing violence between Israel and Hamas, and a ground...

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How the Palestinian Question Could Unravel Netanyahu’s “New Middle East”

On October 7, Hamas, an Iran-backed Islamist terrorist group, broke through the high-tech...

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Bye Bye Boomers, Hello Perennials

While many Baby Boomers have already left the workforce behind, almost half are considering...

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Putin’s Victory in the South Caucasus

How does Russia benefit from conflict in the Caucasus? And what role can the media play in...

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Whose Sovereignty Is It Anyway? Armenia's ICC Bid For Justice with Sheila Paylan

In late September, Azerbaijan wiped out the self-proclaimed, ethnically Armenian Republic of...

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Troubled Times: Brexit’s Toll on Northern Ireland

The United Kingdom recently passed a law which grants immunity for the violence of The Troubles –...

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Inside the Good Friday Agreement, with Tony Blair’s Chief Negotiator

April marked the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday agreement, bringing to an end decades of...

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The Kremlin's Kim-ouflage

If military cooperation with North Korea is a violation of UN Security Council resolutions, why...

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Two Dictators Walk Into a Bar: What We Learned From the Putin-Kim Summit

Russia is firing off more artillery shells than they can produce at home, forcing the Kremlin to...

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Why Detroit’s Auto Workers Are On Strike

As many as 150,000 US auto workers have walked out in a historic strike against the Big Three...

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Regulating Big Tech: Is TikTok Still on the Clock?

In 2023, the rapid pace of innovation in Silicon Valley is making it increasingly challenging for...

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Molière Out, Mercenaries In: Powers and Politics in Françafrique

Is West Africa going to war over Niger? And is the Niger coup part of a wider decline in French...

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Blood and Butter: Why Russia’s Economy is Falling Faster Than Prigozhin’s Plane

What will happen to Wagner without Prigozhin? And can Russia continue to isolate itself from the...

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Putin’s Prigozhin Trap, with Anne Applebaum

On August 23rd, Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a mysterious plane crash just 60 days after his...

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China’s Dream of Global Dominance

The aftermath of the Chinese surveillance balloon saga reveals a growing diplomatic divide...

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QAnon’s German Blitz

Groups like the Reichsbürger and Sovereign Citizens are not new, but the ways in which they...

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