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Following the money in the Iran crisis.
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The Origins of Political Order, a work of total world history, pits the old Fukuyama against the new.
Israel’s expansion project in the West Bank and Jerusalem is ensuring that the “nation” that the UN might grant membership will be each day a little smaller, a little less viable, a little less there.
Israel must forge a new Palestinian and regional strategy in response to the Arab Awakening.
Sabotage and threats have damaged and delayed this year’s mission, but so far the activists are winning the media war.
Support for democracy is the province of ideologists and propagandists. In the real world, elite dislike of democracy is the norm.
Carter Vaughn Finley's timely new history contends that Turkey's development has been misunderstood as an upward march from Islamic empire to secular republic.
What will be the fate of Egypt and the millions of Egyptians who took to the streets in a staggering show of aggressive nonviolence in January and February?
Egypt is a presence in Madison in all sorts of obvious ways, as well as ways harder to put your finger on.


