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Farah N. JanThe Conversation |
Political scientists have long observed that countries are held together not by ideology but by organized coercion.
More than 20 years after the US military success in Iraq, the outcome of the US effort at regime change wasn’t as expected, and authoritarians with...
The attacks on Iran are terrifyingly light on strategy
As US bombing operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya have shown, destruction is not the same as political success.
The Trump administration has called on Iran to permanently end its nuclear program. But threats of force may undermine effort of nonproliferation.
Strikes on nuclear facilities in Iran may increase Tehran’s belief that attaining nuclear weapons is key to establishing a deterrence to regime...
Tensions in South Asia have been taken down a notch with news of a ceasefire – but the conditions for future escalations remain, and mechanisms for...