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conflictsEven when guns are silent, the ideas behind them threaten. Warfare and conflict resolution urgently need to be explained, their causes clarified, and creative solutions explored.
Egypt is a divided and angry society that is failing its young. How did it get here, and what next?
Russia is tightening its pressure on its small Caucasus neighbour. This time it's serious
The outcome of Serbia's fourth election in two years passes the advantage to the political power-brokers
Israel has reached a landmark anniversary. But the ideological project underpinning its existence has brought it to a strategic impasse
Washington's problems in Iraq and Afghanistan are leading it to refocus its military attentions on Tehran
Today's food crisis echoes the early 1970s'. But global finance and climate change make it new
A French colonial defeat inspires a Taliban aiming to erode the resolve of the United
States
On 17 April 1975, Cambodia’s people moved from war into a four-year nightmare, recalled in James Fenton's poem and David Hayes's fragments
Washington's
bubble of optimism about Iraq
has burst, revealing the contrast between American and jihadi
strategic thinking
The
uncertain and fragile security situation in Iraq challenges the view that the war is being
won
The political alliance that promised to save Lebanon in 2005 must now renew itself
The conflict in Basra is part of a wider political struggle over the future of Iraq
Iraq's implosion continues. Where is the country going - Belgium, Somalia, South Korea, or thirty years' war?
The unavoidable emergency of climate change places key responsibility on states
A new government in Pakistan must address the difficult political legacy bequeathed by the country’s discredited president
The poison-gas attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja on 16 March 1988 remains an open wound for many of its victims
A Washington military resignation - and Israel's operations in Gaza - may affect the likelihood and timing of a war with Tehran
A research project in Jordan becomes a lesson in the scope - and limits - of freedom of speech
Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan are near-invisible in the United States election. That may not last
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