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Spotlight on Iran (June 5-13, 2024)

Ali Bagheri-Kani, acting Iranian foreign minister, continued to promote Iran’s political-diplomatic campaign in the region after Foreign Minister Abdollahian’s demise in the crash of President Raisi’s helicopter last month. Bagheri participated in a special meeting of the foreign ministers of developing countries (D-8) in Istanbul and called for measures against …

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Sleepwalking Toward War

In The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860–1914, the British historian Paul Kennedy explained how two traditionally friendly peoples ended up in a downward spiral of mutual hostility that led to World War I. Major structural forces drove the competition between Germany and Britain: economic imperatives, geography, and ideology. Germany’s …

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