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The Causes of Revolutions and “Revolutions” August 24, 2024

Two days before her husband was deposed from the throne, and four days before her whole family was brutally murdered, Tsarina Alexandra of Russia dismissed the importance of the “young people [who] run and shout that there is no bread, simply to crea...

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Securing a Core Group of Allies to Counter Iran August 21, 2024

All revolutions have their intellectual godfathers, the current protean movements seen on American university campuses being no exception. For those wishing to “globalize the Intifada,” there is no greater inspiration than Edward Said (1935-2003), an...

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The Innovation Fallacy August 19, 2024

In remarks in 2018, Chinese leader Xi Jinping highlighted the potential of “disruptive technological innovation” to change history. Key advancements, Xi insisted, had remade the world. He listed the “mechanization” of the First Industrial Revolution,...

economics

Bangladesh Protesters Plan New Party to Cement Their Revolution August 16, 2024

Taiwan Needs Unambiguous Protection, Now August 15, 2024

History is replete with examples of civil wars, wars of aggression and political revolutions altering power relations and sovereignty over once-stable states and territories. ...

A Different Economic Strategy for India August 10, 2024

The national election in India this past spring produced a shocking outcome. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were widely expected to win a third five-year term and increase their majority in the Indian parliament. ...

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Nicaragua Expels Brazilian Ambassador for Not Attending Revolution Anniversary August 09, 2024

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Bangladesh as Color Revolution on India’s Doorstep August 08, 2024

Indian intelligence agencies, rarely the epitome of self-assured success, have rarely been caught as flat-footed as they were over the weekend when Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hurriedly evacuated her palatial residences for a rather mod...

Bangladesh

To Defeat the Houthis, Starve Their Military Resupply August 02, 2024

The Biden administration is playing defense. The Iranian government is open about its so-called “Axis of Resistance,” a patchwork of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-sponsored proxy groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and various Iraqi mil...

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Reflections on Revolutions May 21, 2024

Fareed Zakaria offers some useful, Burkean insights on how to navigate today's uncertainties, but his recommendations are unhelpfully vague. ...

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What ‘Intifada Revolution’ Looks Like May 06, 2024

Last month, a pro-Palestinian activist stood in front of me on Columbia University’s campus with a sign that read By Any Means Necessary. She smiled. She seemed like a nice person. I am an Israeli graduate student at the university, and I know holdin...

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A Litmus Test for Biden’s Iran Policy May 04, 2024

Back in February, Iran's clerical regime marked the 45th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, the 1979 religious revolt which successfully overthrew the Pahlavi monarchy and installed a radical theocracy in its stead. In commemorative speeches and ...

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Karl Polanyi’s Failed Revolution May 02, 2024

Few 20th-century thinkers have had such a lasting and profound influence as Karl Polanyi....

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