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Do drone strikes really drive terrorist recruitment? Interviews with militants, tribal leaders, and Pakistani intelligence suggest it might not.
The July Crisis is a case study of leaders failing to critically reassess their assumptions.
Last Tuesday marked the twentieth anniversay of the referenda on the Good Friday Agreement. What can it teach us about conflict resolution?
It would be far too easy to get into a war with China. How would it end?
Foreign funding for local NGOs can amplify underrepresented perspectives. That makes countries more democratic, not less.
The Islamic State and its supporters can skirt content regulations with media that doesn't explicitly advocate terrorism. Is there more that can be done?
The United States should learn from other countries' proactive approaches to counterterrorism to meet its diverse extremist threats.
The new prime minister is the country’s first from the majority ethnic group, but Ethiopia’s real problems are embedded in its legislative structure.
Iran has paid a heavy price to prop up the Assad regime. It's finally paying off.
After two years in the wilderness, al-Qaeda sympathizers in Syria are coalescing around a new organization.