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Way back in 1919, the poet William Butler Yeats wrote of a time when the “centre cannot hold,” and “mere anarchy” and “the ...

The Iran-Israel clashes have reached a breakpoint with the prospect of the US entering the fray. On Thursday, a White House ...

Analysis - In the Sahel, violent terrorism--now structural--and various forms of trafficking, including that of migrants, are linked structural realities. The agonizing Trans borders cooperation is ...

Needless to say, U.S.-Iranian relations have been perilous for decades. Just last year, the U.S. Department of Justice charged someone with plotting to kill Trump on behalf of Iranian officials.

Lucy Parsons remains an under recognized yet powerful figure of American radicalism. New scholarship into her life and background is welcome but as this review suggests the recently published Goddess ...

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Military action is only the beginning—real responsibility starts the day after. Image by Succo from Pixabay. As tensions rise in the Middle East and President Donald Trump hints at involving the ...

Robert Kaplan’s latest book on big geopolitical questions reflects a shift away from high-minded ideals in US establishment thought. But instead of self-critical pragmatism, what he offers as a ...

de Carvalho, Benjamin (2021), ‘Sovereignty In Historical International Relations: Trajectories, Challenges, and Implications’, in Benjamin De Carvalho, Julia Costa Lopez, and Halvard Leira (eds), ...

The Mali state’s fight against terrorism continues to be constrained by governance factors (regime rollover and illegitimacy) as well as tactical ones (conducting counterterror as opposed to ...