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The Iran War and the Human Habit of Violence

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death marks a complex moment of relief and uncertainty for Iranians and the region. His son, Mojtaba Khamenei, succeeds him, leaving the regime weakened... Read full article

Rainer Ebert - March 16, 2026

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Guarding the Gates of the Global Fortress: Great Power Rivalry at Global Strategic Chokepoints
by Masaaki Yoshimori & Scott Westerfield
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Bangladesh Post-Monsoon Uprising: A New Era of Political Change
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The Indian Subcontinent’s Hindu-Muslim Divide

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Understanding the 1975 Autocratic “Emergency” in India

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The Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein

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Football and Politics: An Old Love Affair

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Trump Makes Wars of Religion Great Again!

From Bush’s War on Terror to Trump’s strikes on Iran, US foreign policy has quietly transformed from ideological conflict into...

The Devil’s Stagecraft: When Biblical Prophecy Drives Foreign Policy

Shakespeare’s Macbeth offers a haunting mirror for today’s geopolitics. The witches’ art of “equivocation” — truths...

Is Europe a Possessed Continent?

Europe’s crisis runs deeper than economics or politics — it’s both an identity crisis and a...

The Iran War: How Does It End?

The US and Israel started the war in Iran without...

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The US Legal System Is Being Hacked

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What the Iran War Reveals About the Limits of Chinese Power

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The Dialectic: Narendra Modi’s Vegetarian Stalinism Has Ruined the Indian Economy

In this episode of The Dialectic, Atul Singh and Glenn Carle explain how India’s current leader has rolled back the 1991 economic reforms, restoring the extreme centralization of the socialist 1970s. Competitive populism and crony capitalism have led to a dumbbell economy where the babu...

by Glenn Carle & Atul Singh

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