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I suspect if the pilot is captured Tehran will now make a big show of treating them well to score a global pr win
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Anjali Dayal
3 days ago
âif Trump is looking for a rerun of the 1991 Gulf War, he is likely to be disappointedâ: the wonderful and blueskyless Daniel Neep on the how the USâs fading relationship with the UN reveals that escalation, not limited war, is the sole way forward the US has left open for itself
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Iran Is the Dumb, Disastrous Remake of Desert Storm
Trump is trying to rerun the first Gulf War, badly, in an international system that wonât allow it.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/03/iran-trump-bush-iraq-gulf-war/
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Howard Eissenstat
7 days ago
Personally, I think your willingness to appear on TRT should directly reflect your willingness to appear on Russia Today.
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Great new piece by
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on Turkey, democracy and national solidarity:
foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/27/t...
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Turkeyâs Contested Homefront
What lesson about national solidarity will Erdogan draw from Israel and Iran?
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/27/turkey-iran-israel-erdogan-nationalism-democracy-war/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=dHVya2V5LWlyYW4taXNyYWVsLWVyZG9nYW4tbmF0aW9uYWxpc20tZGVtb2NyYWN5LXdhcg==&pid=PNIYhDtljsxa8z0
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Howard Eissenstat
14 days ago
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Anjali Dayal
14 days ago
my job as an academic isn't to predict the future, but "this will be even worse than you think it will be" has yet to serve me wrong as a guide to any given government choice during the Trump years
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BeijingPalmer
17 days ago
Graeber was the leftist Malcolm Gladwell.
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And to think some people believed him...
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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
20 days ago
It's important to think about what work the claim "Crash Bandicoot is political" is doing in a conversation, and that work is usually supporting the claim "now I get to yell at you about Crash Bandicoot".
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21 days ago
@centuryintl.bsky.social
colleague
@freddydeknatel.bsky.social
on the ways in which Trump's war on Iran is a degraded, copy-of-a-copy Xerox of Bush's 2003 invasion of Iraq:
newlinesmag.com/essays/the-u...
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The Uncanny Echoes of Iraq in Trumpâs War With Iran
The president has often defined his foreign policy approach in opposition to the Bush administrationâs, but he is following in its footsteps
https://newlinesmag.com/essays/the-uncanny-echoes-of-iraq-in-trumps-war-with-iran/
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Nate Schenkkan
22 days ago
Reproducing this in meme format, which
@nicholasdanfort.bsky.social
introduced to me years ago re Turkish nationalists and the Armenian genocide
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Incidentally, this article implicitly acknowledges that Israeli rhetoric about freeing Gaza from Hamas was actually bullshit
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Anne Thériault
23 days ago
This is one of the funniest corrections Iâve ever read
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Patrick Osgood
23 days ago
Dude, this war - after myriad prior outrages - demonstrates conclusively that the âprinciplesâ you âfearâ the US âmay be retreating fromâ have long been thrown out of the window and lie in the gutter. Itâs happened already. Catch up
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Reposting this piece on the aesthetics of empire:
foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/22/t...
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The Look of Empire
Donald Trumpâs dangerous fixation with imperial aesthetics.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/22/trump-venezuela-empire-greenland-nato-europe/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=dHJ1bXAtdmVuZXp1ZWxhLWVtcGlyZS1ncmVlbmxhbmQtbmF0by1ldXJvcGU=&pid=PNIYhDtljsxa8z0
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A very thoughtful piece on the predicament of Iranian Kurds
foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/05/i...
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A Dangerous Opportunity for Iranâs Kurds
Only by working together can Kurdish groups and the Iranian opposition forge a better future.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/05/iran-war-israel-trump-iran-kurds-minorities/
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A very thoughtful piece on the predicament of Iranian Kurds
foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/05/i...
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A Dangerous Opportunity for Iranâs Kurds
Only by working together can Kurdish groups and the Iranian opposition forge a better future.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/05/iran-war-israel-trump-iran-kurds-minorities/
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Howard Eissenstat
about 1 month ago
Great piece!
@joelhs.bsky.social
writes: "What is uncomfortable about this time period is how easily legitimate questions about Israelâs role in stoking this war can slide into conspiracy theories. The lines are not always as easy to maintain as we might like."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Americans are finally taking a critical approach to Israel. We can do that without sliding into antisemitism | Joel Swanson
Israelâs role in drawing the US into a war on Iran is attracting healthy scrutiny. Itâs also creating a permission structure for antisemitism
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/05/us-israel-iran-antisemitism
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Joe Stieb
about 1 month ago
Itâs worth noting that for all his flaws, George W. Bush didnât frame the War on Terror as âWestern Civâ or Christianity against Islam or the East but as a struggle of decent peoples against a new form of totalitarianism. Now weâre doing the full on Christian nationalist dream of war with Islam.
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Jill Business Waffles Dilts
about 1 month ago
I gather that everyone here is 100% certain Donald Trump is a misogynist. So who here actually knew that his wife is a woman? And how does that influence your certainty?
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Selim on the Turkish angle on the war:
kulturkampftr.substack.com/p/turkey-wat...
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Turkey watches the Iran War
Notebook #49: Iran special edition
https://kulturkampftr.substack.com/p/turkey-watches-the-iran-war
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Nathalie Tocci weighs in on the European response
foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/03/e...
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Europe Abandons Both Integrity and Influence on Iran
In response to Trumpâs strikes, European leaders have created an alternate reality to escape their hypocrisy.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/03/europe-france-germany-britain-trump-iran-israel-war/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=ZXVyb3BlLWZyYW5jZS1nZXJtYW55LWJyaXRhaW4tdHJ1bXAtaXJhbi1pc3JhZWwtd2Fy&pid=PNIYhDtljsxa8z0
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Aviel Roshwald
about 1 month ago
If the war ends well for Trump, It was his brilliant idea. If it doesnât, blame the Jews.
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The people of Maine shouldn't have to choose between Susan Collins and a quasi-nazi.
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Anjali Dayal
about 1 month ago
you know, this is why you should not elect people who have never once learned anything about anything
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MeidasTouch
about 1 month ago
Trump has no plan. This is a damning summary from The Economistâs Middle East Correspondent Gregg Carlstrom.
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Thought of this essay the other day. Most imperial nostalgia whitewashes the role of violence in empire. But perversely, a lot of what passes for realism these days ignores the fact that successful empires also maintained some measure of political legitimacy
www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...
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Imperial Nostalgia
Imperial nostalgia naturally tends to focus on the empires that prevailed. But, as the particularly bloody history of eastern Europe and the Balkans reveals, trying to establish an empire in the wrong...
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/redeem/epFHIlDzffs
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Just checking the news
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War on the Rocks
about 1 month ago
The key question now is whether the Iranian regime can survive. If U.S. or Israeli forces sustain an aerial presence to target repressive forces, it could shape what follows. (Members Only) Listen here:
warontherocks.com/ep...
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There was an era about a decade ago when Serious People talked a lot about defending the Westphalian State System from rogue regimes and if that meant anything I'm pretty sure it was not assassinating heads of state.
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Nate Schenkkan
about 1 month ago
Tapping the sign
foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/24/t...
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Trumpâs Illiberal Interventionism
The president swore off building nations, not destroying them.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/24/trump-intervention-liberal-iran-war/
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Dan Nexon
about 1 month ago
"No new wars" really just meant "f*ck Ukraine" and everyone knew it.
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Nate Schenkkan
about 1 month ago
I wrote about this in June after the first round of US strikes on Iran:
foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/24/t...
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Trumpâs Illiberal Interventionism
The president swore off building nations, not destroying them.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/24/trump-intervention-liberal-iran-war/
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Aviel Roshwald
about 1 month ago
wapo.st/4kT0GVX
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A professor challenged the Smithsonian. Security shut the gallery.
As President Donald Trump seeks to reshape museums and other cultural institutions, historian James Millward has been âguerrilla teachingâ visitors about changes that have been made.
https://wapo.st/4kT0GVX
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A proud people steeped in the Shia tradition, the Persians may choose heroic martyrdom over national humiliation. This is difficult for the pragmatic Western mind to comprehend, as we have no examples of this in our culture.
about 1 month ago
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From a book review by Magda Teter:
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Had a great discussion with
@selimkoru.bsky.social
and Reuben Silverman about Reuben's new book:
kulturkampftr.substack.com/p/the-rise-a...
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The Rise and Fall of Turkey's Democrat Party
A conversation with historian Reuben Silverman on the 1950s, democratization, and what went wrong
https://kulturkampftr.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-turkeys-democrat
about 1 month ago
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Lisel Hintz
about 2 months ago
My take on Trumpâs foreign policy with
@berkesen.bsky.social
and Tudor Onea is out! Trumpâs whims may be unique but his approach to FP isnât. We identify seven pillars of populist FP, with examples from Hungary, India, Turkey, and Venezuela as well as the US.
foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/19/t...
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The Seven Pillars of Populist Foreign Policy
To understand Trumpâs approach to the world, look at the leaders he resembles.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/19/trump-erdogan-orban-modi-india-hungary-turkey-populism-corruptionthe-seven-pillars-of-populist-foreign-policy/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=dHJ1bXAtZXJkb2dhbi1vcmJhbi1tb2RpLWluZGlhLWh1bmdhcnktdHVya2V5LXBvcHVsaXNtLWNvcnJ1cHRpb250aGUtc2V2ZW4tcGlsbGFycy1vZi1wb3B1bGlzdC1mb3JlaWduLXBvbGljeQ==&pid=PNIYhDtljsxa8z0
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A fantastic piece from
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,
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foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/19/t...
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The Seven Pillars of Populist Foreign Policy
To understand Trumpâs approach to the world, look at the leaders he resembles.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/19/trump-erdogan-orban-modi-india-hungary-turkey-populism-corruptionthe-seven-pillars-of-populist-foreign-policy/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=dHJ1bXAtZXJkb2dhbi1vcmJhbi1tb2RpLWluZGlhLWh1bmdhcnktdHVya2V5LXBvcHVsaXNtLWNvcnJ1cHRpb250aGUtc2V2ZW4tcGlsbGFycy1vZi1wb3B1bGlzdC1mb3JlaWduLXBvbGljeQ==&pid=PNIYhDtljsxa8z0
about 2 months ago
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Dave Levitan
about 2 months ago
Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible âAmerica at 250!â achievement
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"The IOC can continue to shrugâor it can get creative. Indoor sports wonât save winter. But they might just save the Winter Olympics.
foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/18/w...
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Bored by Biathlon? The Winter Games Need Ping-Pong.
Bringing some popular indoor sports to the Winter Olympics would dramatically expand their global reach.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/18/winter-olympics-indoor-sports-ping-pong-global-south/
about 2 months ago
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Selim Koru
about 2 months ago
There's a common assumption in Western political thought: republicanism grew out of centuries of nobles and parliaments challenging kings. And that this tradition is unique to the West â that in the Islamic world, rulers were obeyed with religious submission, and self-government was a foreign import
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The foundations of NATO were suffused with racial and religious ideas about Western civilization, but also with a clear aspiration to transcend them for something more universal. Rubio's speech turns back the clock past the 50s by abandoning even the aspiration.
foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/14/r...
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Rubio to Europe: âWe Care Deeplyâ
In a widely anticipated speech at the Munich Security Conference, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio described concerns about a shared âWestern civilizationâ as reasonâŠ
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/14/rubio-munich-security-conference-speech/
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Had a lot of fun talking with
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last week about the fate of US foreign policy. The conversation was a rollercoaster of optimism, despair and outrage.
thecenturyfoundation.podbean.com
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Order From Ashes | Century International
Todayâs world is in unprecedented flux. Rights and citizenship are under assault. Authoritarianism is on the rise. Century International director Thanassis Cambanis talks with researchers and activist...
https://thecenturyfoundation.podbean.com/
about 2 months ago
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Thanassis Cambanis
about 2 months ago
If
@aoc.bsky.social
's comments on the hypocrisy and then dismantling of the international liberal order at Munich piqued your curiosity, listen to
@nicholasdanfort.bsky.social
. He gives the historical sweep of that order, why it hit a wall, and what a better replacement might look like.
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Selim Koru
about 2 months ago
@nicholasdanfort.bsky.social
and I also invited the author,
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for a podcast discussion, available here:
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Discussing the Roots of Turkish Republicanism with Alp Eren Topal
We are all kingslayers
https://kulturkampftr.substack.com/p/discussing-the-roots-of-turkish-republicanism
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tl;dr Join me, and together, we can rule the galaxy as son and father!
foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/14/r...
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Rubio to Europe: âWe Care Deeplyâ
In a widely anticipated speech at the Munich Security Conference, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio described concerns about a shared âWestern civilizationâ as reasonâŠ
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/14/rubio-munich-security-conference-speech/
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jamelle
about 2 months ago
rubioâs invocation of âwestern civilizationâ â defined here as racial and religious chauvinism, if not outright supremacy â is a rejection of the more egalitarian and universalistic notions that came out of americaâs two revolutions.
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