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Foreign Policy in Iran: Silence Is Worth A Thousand Lives
by Jeremiah Barnett January 22, 2018A few weeks ago, something terrible and yet necessary began. Iranians took to the streets in several cities to protest a corrupt and tyrannical…
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Trump’s Isolationist America
by Zach Emanuel January 18, 2018Swept into office almost a year ago now, Donald Trump was elected in part because of his foreign policy promise to restore American dominance…
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Stopping Russia In Its Tracks
by Conor McDonald September 28, 2017In 2009, the United States and the European Union chose to discontinue efforts toward establishing a missile defense complex in Poland. This decision was…
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Sectarianism: A Chess Piece in a Nuanced Game for Dominance
by Jeremiah Barnett September 27, 2017Conflict begets conflict. The violent clashes in Syria and Iraq led scholars to clash in their opposing causal explanations. The temptation to see sectarianism…
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China’s Strategic African Exploitation
by Tala Ahmadi August 6, 2017The minibus violently jostled left and right as we hit a road under construction. Awoken from my nap, I looked out the window half…
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Al Jazeera and the Gulf Crisis: Consequences of Partial Press Freedom
by Jemma Tan July 15, 2017The regularly tumultuous region of the Middle East was sent into an unprecedented tailspin last month when the Gulf Cooperation Council, a group of…
