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Does the decline of U.S. power matter for the Middle East?

Marc Lynch - March 19, 2019

Perceived or not, declining American primacy has real effects.

It’s not funded just by oil and looting. How the Islamic State uses agriculture.

Hadi Jaafar and Eckart Woertz - September 27, 2016

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Most nations going to the Olympics won’t bring home a medal. Here’s why they compete anyway.

Danyel Reiche - August 4, 2016

Sending a delegation to the Olympics builds national identity.

Want more Olympic medals? Here’s what nations need to do to win.

Danyel Reiche - August 3, 2016

Wealth and size don't dictate how countries win Olympic medals.

Lebanon's massive garbage crisis isn't its first. Here's what that teaches us.

- September 18, 2015

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Lebanon’s massive garbage crisis isn’t its first. Here’s what that teaches us.

Rola el-Husseini and Nora Stel - September 18, 2015

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