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As a vast, economically challenged and multi-ethnic polity, the Russian state is chronically overstretched. Its struggle to establish equilibrium points towards hegemonic decline.
The troubled history of the Arab Spring sheds light on the fate of Iran’s uprising. It explains why the Islamic Republic continues to survive waves of mass protest, yet may ultimat..
The Conference of Genoa, 1922, promised the rebirth of a continent in ruins. Its failure offers a timely warning.
In the early 19th century, Britain’s Thomas Stamford Raffles fused Enlightenment pragmatism, free trade, and secular education to create the foundations of modern Singapore.
Since the Monroe Doctrine of 1823, relations between the United States and Latin America have oscillated between cooperation and conflict, reflecting deeper tensions over competing..
Restoring credible deterrence for a new nuclear age should begin with the ‘intellectual rearmament’ of European statesmen and officials, in the tradition of Michael Quinlan, Britai..
The decisive military action in Venezuela leaves much uncertainty over whether Washington’s attempt at regime change can defy recent history. Yet analogies drawn from the experienc..
From Kyoto to Constantinople, political structures reveal that legitimacy rarely rests on power alone. It is sustained by the careful interplay of law, tradition, and performance.
Iran is dominated by a mercantile political economy hostile to institutional development and long-term investment.
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