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The Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power: How States Use Religion in Foreign Policy
Peter Mandaville is exceptionally well positioned to edit The Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power. A professor of international affairs at the Schar School of...
How the Middle East Can Build Its Own Concert System After Iran’s 2026 Strike
The large-scale Iranian missile and drone attacks across the Middle East in March 2026 could be an inflection point. Although the immediate military outcome...
“No Kings” on the Streets, MAGA Fracture at CPAC: Trump’s Iran War Problem
One month since the United States and Israel began their major airstrikes on Iran, something unusual is happening in the heart of MAGA country....
Rebalancing Energy Policy: Diversification, Net Zero, and the Erosion of Energy Security
Thirty years ago, I was negotiating the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (TAP) pipeline - later expanded into the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline - one of the most ambitious...
Why the Strait of Hormuz Remains So Vulnerable
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) declared on March 27 that shipping to and from ports supporting Israel and the U. S. is banned...
The Strongman as a Brand
The Act and the Reality
There is a performance happening in capitals across the world, and most audiences are only watching one half of it....
Trump Dangles Iran Exit and NATO Pullout as Oil Crisis Deepens
President Donald Trump indicated that the United States will soon end its war on Iran, with the possibility of returning for "spot hits" if...
Israel Adopts Controversial Death Penalty Law for Palestinians
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have voiced alarm over a newly passed Israeli law that makes the death penalty the default sentence for...
Misreading Iran: Why Trump’s War Strategy Has Reached a Dead End
From the outset, the war against Iran has been marked by a striking absence of strategic clarity. Despite repeated claims of military success, the...
U.S. Signals Long Transition to Democracy in Venezuela
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said Venezuela will ultimately require a political transition followed by free and fair elections, but cautioned that...