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Катастрофа Меркель: ошибка, упрямство или закономерный итог?

Готовясь к уходу с поста канцлера, Ангела Меркель грубо ошиблась — и фактически лишила свою партию шансов остаться у власти. Да, предвыборная кампания в Германии завершается действительно сенсационно — за три недели до выборов ХДС-ХСС стремительно теряет место первой партии страны.Нынешняя кампания вообще преподнесла массу сюрпризов — рейтинги большинства партий …

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Twenty Years After 9/11: The Fight for Supremacy in Northwest Syria and the Implications for Global Jihad

Abstract: Over the past decade, nowhere in the world has exerted as profound and transformative an impact on the global jihadi landscape as Syria. For al-Qaida, Syria had once been the source of its greatest hope, where dozens of its most experienced leading operatives were dispatched to enhance prospects of …

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Twenty Years After 9/11: What Is the Future of the Global Jihadi Movement?

Abstract: Twenty years after 9/11, with the United States withdrawn from Afghanistan, the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and a shift in focus and resources to great power competition, jihadi terrorism appears to have been demoted to a second-tier priority. But complacency is dangerous. While al-Qa`ida and the Islamic …

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