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What Turkey Wants in Iran

ISTANBUL – In times of upheaval, it is up to political leaders to make the critical decisions needed to defend their countries’ interests. Those decisions are often shaped by an institutional sense of history. This is certainly true for Turkey today, as it confronts the likely ramifications of the US-Israeli

A New Iranian Revolution?

But regimes born of revolutions have more in common than how they end. The first generation embodies the revolutionary spirit

Development Is Hard Power

Understood in these terms, international development is not just a form of “soft power” (exerting influence through persuasion and attraction).

Europe’s Reckoning with Fossil-Fuel Insecurity

Transforming Europe’s energy system requires its leaders to accept that, no matter how much is spent on strengthening the continent’s

Europe Cannot Avoid an AI Reckoning

The lesson from recent US policy changes is not that Europe should deregulate, but that regulation without hardware, compute, and

New World Order or Bust

The world is indeed a mess. But defending institutions that have lost their effectiveness and legitimacy is not the answer.

America’s Year of Self-Destruction

Constitutionally protected civil liberties are giving way to comprehensive surveillance and control, administered by private companies like Palantir.

Stifling the “Spirit of Dialogue” at Davos

The silence on climate change is as cynical as it is unsurprising. One of Trump’s first acts in his second

Why Is Putin Silent on Venezuela?

Russia’s patriotic bloggers and war correspondents – the group most supportive of the country’s “special military operation” in Ukraine – are

The High Cost of Trump’s Amateur Diplomats

Trump, now engaged in a brazenly neo-imperialist project in Venezuela, has handed China a golden opportunity to portray itself as