Cuba gets less attention as an espionage threat than Russia or China, but is a potent player in the spy world. Its intelligence service has already penetrated the US government at least once.
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Turkey vs. Türkiye? When a country changes its name or requests changes to the spelling of its name, there are almost always political motives.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan dissolved Parliament rather than face a no-confidence vote. The Conversation asked an expert: What happens next?
Despite efforts to prevent militant groups from getting weapons, they often get their hands on U.S. equipment and use it to attack American troops.
The dangerous situation faced by Afghans who want to flee, but can’t, shows how unwilling or unprepared the US and other countries are to deal with refugees.
There were messages for friend and foe alike, but Biden was strangely silent on Brexit.
President Trump has claimed the Islamic State was completely defeated on his watch – but an analysis of government maps and other reports shows his administration did only half the work.
A commission set up by the US Secretary of State says religious freedom and property rights should be elevated above other rights. It has prompted concern from faith-based and secular critics alike.
If upheld, a federal court ruling would solidify birthright citizenship as the law of the land, and overturn more than a century of federal refusal to grant American Samoans citizenship status.
A media historian uses declassified government documents to show how both sides of the Iron Curtain worked to have the projects canned.
Forged documents were used by the US government 100 years ago to justify hostile actions against Russia. All but one US newspaper accepted the government’s propaganda. The lessons for today are stark.
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Executive Director, University of Dayton Human Rights Center, University of Dayton
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Reader in International Relations, Royal Holloway University of London
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Associate Professor of Journalism, Indiana University
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Ph.D. candidate, Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University
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Professor of Linguistics and English, Florida International University
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Professor of Islamic History, UMass Dartmouth
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Professor of Political Science and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Richter Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College
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Research Fellow at Project on International Security, Commerce and Economic Statecraft, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Professor of History, Tufts University
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Global Scholar at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC and Hopkins P Breazeale Professor, Manship School of Mass Communications, Louisiana State University
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Assistant Director, Applied History Project and Intelligence Project, Harvard Kennedy School
