On 8 December 2024, the streets of Damascus erupted in a mix of jubilation and uncertainty as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a…
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Over about a decade of teaching a course on “U.S. Politics and Foreign Policy” at the University of Sydney I posed a…
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The Starlink name draws from the novel The Fault in Our Stars by John Green about two teenagers with cancer who find…
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Gerardo L. Munck is Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California (USC). His…
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Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin’s RussiaBy Jade McGlynnBloomsbury Publishing, 2023 Scholars have focused more on the issue of…
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Since Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s rise to power in 2002, one might ask whether we can speak of an Erdoğan Doctrine in Turkish…
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In the wake of Bashar al-Assad’s downfall in Syria, Western media and policymakers have rushed to celebrate what many see as the…
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During the past several years, the world has been going through turbulent conflicts that have intertwined in some ways and heightened the…
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The most enduring consequence of Donald Trump’s second coming could be the end of the idea of the West, at least in…
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As Sir Keir Starmer visited Washington last week to meet with President Trump to discuss Ukraine, the fate of the special relationship…