Articles

  • Feb112026

    Visions of a New Syria

    Efforts to craft a new identity for Syria will mean little if its government cannot get a grip on spiralling…

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  • Jan202026

    Is the Islamic Republic on Borrowed Time?

    The troubled history of the Arab Spring sheds light on the fate of Iran’s uprising. It explains why the Islamic…

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  • Jan152026

    Inside the White House Situation Room

    Hillary Clinton and others explore the psychology behind the decisions that shape history It is one of the defining images…

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  • Jan142026

    Thresholds of Survival: The Resistance in Occupied Ukraine

    The 2024 CSIS report Crossing Thresholds traced the emergence of diverse forms of resistance in Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories between…

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  • Jan072026

    The Age of Invasion

    How Trump’s new global strategy will assert Washington’s hemispheric ambitions When a US presidential election race enters its final stages,…

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  • Dec182025

    The World According to Henry Kissinger

    Jérémie Gallon’s biography charts how the German émigré’s realpolitik diplomacy continues to shape the international order On 9 November 1944,…

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  • Dec102025

    A New Syria Struggles to be Born

    A year after the fall of the Assad regime, Syria’s new government confronts domestic challenges and geopolitical hazards. Syrians could…

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  • Nov112025

    Iraq’s Islamic Resistance and the Bending of Sect-Coded and Cross-Sectarian Solidarity

    In light of the ongoing conflict in Gaza, particularly following the Iran-Israel ‘12-Day War’ and subsequent U.S. strikes on Iran,…

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  • Nov032025

    Pervasive Mass Violence has Paralysed our Failing Government

    After yet another murderous attack, it is time to overhaul our inadequate anti-terror regime. It has been an exhausting week,…

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  • Oct072025

    Manchester and the Jihadi War Against Jews

    Jihad al-Shamie emerged from a British subculture contaminated with violence. There was a depressing inevitability to the terrorist attack outside…

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