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Insight on Syria: What Are Putin's Motives?

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Russia’s direct entry into the Syrian conflict in September 2015 was spurred by a plethora of motivations. Russian scholars Rawi Abdelal and Alexandra Vacroux unpack the various rationales. By Rawi Abdelal and Alexandra Vacroux Fourth in a series that...

Through the Ashes of the Minsk Agreements

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Former member of the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Lidia Powirska looks back at the Minsk agreements and why they failed to bring even temporary peace to the Donbas conflict.

How Vietnam Was Poised for the Pandemic

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A historian working in Vietnam reflects on the past events that shaped the country’s response to COVID-19. By Michelle Nicholasen By all accounts, Vietnam has been extraordinarily successful in containing the SARS-Cov-2 outbreak. With just 335 cases and...

Who Deserves Independence?

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A historian spotlights the backstories of nationalist groups that were passed over during the post-World War II wave of decolonization. By Lydia Walker Twentieth-century global decolonization changed the map. In the thirty years after the Second World War...

In the Crosshairs of an Academic Crackdown

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Even when her colleagues at the American University in Cairo were getting arrested and sentenced to death, sociologist Amy Austin Holmes thought she had kept herself safely under the radar. She was wrong. By Michelle Nicholasen It was a straightforward...

The US-India Relationship: A Q&A with Kenneth Juster

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The recent US Ambassador to India offers insights on trade relations between the world’s two largest democracies, the goals of the Quad, and how to counter Chinese dominance in the Indo-Pacific. By Roshni Chakraborty Weatherhead Center Advisory Committee...