Articles

  • Jun122026

    Japan Bets on Arms Exports for Economic Resilience and Security

    Japan’s lift of its ban on arms exports marks another stage in the country’s gradual transformation into a more proactive…

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  • May212026

    Surviving Russia’s Surveillance State

    Russia’s sophisticated system of repression in occupied Ukraine must force resistance to adapt.

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  • May112026

    Who Wants Hezbollah to Stay Armed?

    A new study by XCEPT researchers Nils Mallock and Nafees Hamid, published in Foreign Policy, presents empirical evidence on why…

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  • Apr222026

    How to Make Peace in the Middle East

    Those attempting to secure a diplomatic bargain between the United States and Iran should draw lessons from the historic peace…

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  • Apr212026

    How Jihadism Takes Root in Liberal Democracies

    The ISIS caliphate may have fallen, but the allure of Islamic holy war is still a potent force—even in the…

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  • Apr162026

    What’s Britain’s Place in the Post-Iran World Order?

    Midway through James Joyce’s Ulysses, the character J.J. O’Molloy tips his hat to ‘Our watchful friend, the Skibbereen Eagle’, a…

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  • Apr142026

    Russia’s War for Demographic Control

    Russia is remaking the demographic structure of cities such as Mariupol, with implications that extend far beyond the current phase…

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  • Mar292026

    British Statecraft Needs More Than Internationalist Legal Orthodoxy

    The Government’s maximalist interpretation of public international law leaves Britain unprepared for the emerging world When the British Foreign Secretary Lord…

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  • Mar292026

    A State-Engineered Architecture of Persecution: Russia’s Systematic Campaign Against Ukrainian Civilians in Occupied Territories

    Since the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, thousands of Ukrainian civilians have been subjected to a…

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  • Mar202026

    America’s Paradoxical War in Iran

    Lessons from the War on Terror and the Arab Spring suggest that President Trump’s siege of the Islamic Republic may…

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