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But even though its effects on countries’ political systems and the extent to which it fosters democratic decay have been ...

To end the war soon and on terms favorable to Kyiv, Ukraine will need to go on the offensive once again in 2025. After the ...

And despite a perception among some Western policymakers and academics that these efforts are tone deaf, China’s external ...

Since then, Hezbollah has continued to design its attacks to stay below the threshold of a full-scale conflagration. The ...

BRICS stands out among such initiatives as the most significant, relevant, and potentially influential. Since the group’s ...

Unless he can improve as a manager and become more adroit at political negotiation, Milei will lose political capital—and ...

As scholars have long known, public support for political violence encourages volatile people—those who may actually use ...