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Our Delusional Presidential Campaigns

Stephen Blank1 Comment

To date, both presidential campaigns have mostly evaded any serious discussion of the real issues challenging the United States. When they have discussed them, they have interspersed potentially serious ideas…

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What a Kamala Harris Presidency Means for Deterrence

Aaron Holland3 Comments

As Americans weigh their vote for president in November’s election, the implications of a Kamala Harris presidency for nuclear deterrence and foreign policy warrant careful consideration. Harris, with seven years…

Government & PoliticsAfghanistan, India, NATO, Pakistan, Taliban, United States

An Interim Government Could Cause Chaos in Afghanistan

Ghulam Farooq Mujaddidi

Speculation over the formation of an interim administration with a new political roadmap for Afghanistan is nothing new. It has been the talk of the town ever since the Trump…

Government & PoliticsEuropean Union, Turkey, United States

Turkey’s Faltering Democracy and Western Interests

Anwar Alam

In mid-November, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden. Although brief, the call between the two leaders is likely the start of a markedly different U.S.-Turkey…

Government & PoliticsTurkey

Turkey Uses Medieval Score-Settling to Justify Its Hagia Sophia Conversion

Philip Kowalski

Europe is now home to one of the world’s strangest paradoxes. The continent’s most prominent mosque, the Great Mosque of Cordoba, has served as a church since the year 1236.…

Government & PoliticsChina, Iran

COVID-19 Sparks a Wave of Racism in Iran

Ali Arfa

After Kianush Jahanpur, Iran’s health ministry spokesman called the Chinese COVID-19 figures a “joke,” there was an exchange of some tweets between him and Chang Hua, Chinese ambassador to Iran.…

Government & PoliticsPutin, Russia

Constitutional Reform and Presidential Term Limits in Russia

Gabriella Gricius

What will Vladimir Putin do when his presidential term ends in 2024? In his annual state-of-the-nation speech this January, Russian President Vladimir Putin called for broad changes to the Russian…

Government & PoliticsCorruption, Russia, Ukraine

London Court Rules Against Ukrainian Oligarchs in PrivatBank Case

Gabriella Gricius

While the ruling is ostensively favorable for Ukraine, it has consequences for the country's economic and corruption woes. Last week, Ukrainian oligarchs Igor Kolomoyskiy and Hennadiy Boholyubov lost their case…

Government & PoliticsElections, Russia, Ukraine

Elections in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk Regions: Peace, But At What Cost?

Gabriella Gricius

In early October of 2019, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukraine would agree to hold elections in the occupied regions of Donetsk and Luhansk once all armed forces leave the…

Government & PoliticsAfghanistan, United States

Afghanistan’s 2019 Presidential Election: Leading Contenders

Mustafa Aryan

Seventeen candidates are running for the 2019 Afghan presidential election on September 28, 2019.The two leading candidates are the incumbent President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, who…

Government & PoliticsNepal, Southeast Asia

No End in Sight to the Struggle for Transitional Justice in Nepal

Nandita Palrecha

The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2006 marked the end of the decade-long civil war between the Maoists and the Nepalese state. The conflict that saw the…

Government & PoliticsIran, Middle East, United States

Washington’s Rationale for Ignoring Iranian Civil Unrest is Inexcusable

Shima Bozorgi

This August is the 66th anniversary of the 1953 ouster of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. Hardliners and those on the left-wing of politics in Iran condemn Mosaddegh’s removal as a…