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The Jasmine Revolution: Seven Years Later
Seven years after Tunisians fought to depose longtime dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, a revolution that…
Does Iranian Activism Stand a Chance?
In recent years, Iran has been no stranger to political strife and friction. With the success of Ayatollah…
Salvation or Insecurity? Afghanistan’s Ethnic…
Former Mujahideen leader and now governor of Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province, Mohammad Atta Noor has sparked…
A City More Divided—The United Jerusalem Bill
As the epicentre of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jerusalem serves as more than the Holy Land over which…
Erdoğan Calls Monument of Turkish-Armenian Relations a…
Turkish sculptor Mehmet Aksoy is no stranger to provoking conflict over his works of art. He has had politicians in…
The Deadliest Catch: Migrant Trafficking Through Libya
The number of migrants attempting to migrate to Europe via the Mediterranean reached epic proportions after the…
Looking Ahead: America’s Role in the UN
Since Donald Trump’s inauguration at the start of this year, America’s foreign policy has experienced a…
Frenemies: The Secretive Saudi/Israeli Relationship
Throughout the history of international diplomacy and geopolitics, appearance and reality are quite divided. Often,…
America’s Retreat: Russian and Chinese Leadership in the…
Editor's Note: This article is the second of a two-part series on the Middle East and North Africa's (MENA)…
The Taliban: Looming Kingpins of Afghan Opium
What the Afghan government and other actors hoped would be a period of stabilization and decline, or at least…
America’s Retreat: Russian and Chinese Leadership in the…
Editor's Note: This article is the first of a two-part series on the Middle East and North Africa's (MENA) shifting…
An Iranian Arab Spring?
Recent anti-government protests this month have engulfed over 80 cities in Iran, as thousands of predominantly…