POLITICS
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Democrat or Republican, Americans are angry, frustrated and overwhelmed
By María Celeste Wagner, University of Pennsylvania and Pablo J. Boczkowski, Northwestern University As the country looks ahead to President…
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Kazakhstan: The curious case of anti-Sino sentiments
By Alexander Brown The weekend of October 26th saw another round of mass protests in both the capital and major…
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Saudi Arabia and Israel – an overdue embrace
By Jonathan Honigman Iran and Turkey Given its ancient history, large population, and leadership amongst the Shiite community that accounts…
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Reminiscence of Soviet soft power and the way it influenced Third World
By Punsara Amarasinghe and Prof. Sanjay Rajhans The exact meaning carved by Joseph Nye in coining his notable concept “Soft Power”…
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What Hongkongers think but cannot say
By C.G. Fewston After five long months of unrest in Hong Kong, what are the protesters still fighting for? Many…
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What Trump’s travel ban really looks like, almost two years in
By Vahid Niayesh, California State University, Long Beach Did President Donald Trump’s travel ban – in place now for more…
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Trump has upended the long history of US investment in Ukraine’s democracy
By Matthew Pauly, Michigan State University On a cold December night in 2016, Marie Yovanovitch, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine,…
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On nuclear madmen and their perilous bluffs
During the Cold War, and in particular, the Nixon era, the US’s Nuclear Deterrence Strategy had at times flirted with…
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How to circumvent U.S. sanctions through proxy states: a “how-to” and a “who will help you”
By Robert Carmona-Borjas U.S. politicians have long operated at the behest of foreign actors, public and private, under a veil…
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Xi-Modi: Building geocultural connectivities
By Rani Singh and Tim Winter We live in an era when state power is accumulated by building structures of connectivity.…
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