Hold Your Fire!
By International Crisis Group
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Join Crisis Group's Executive Vice President Richard Atwood as he dives deep into the conflicts that rage around the globe with Crisis Group analysts and special guests. These experts bring a unique, on-the-ground perspective to understanding both why those conflicts persist — and what could bring them to an end.
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Special Episode: U.S. and Iran Find an Off-ramp?
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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100 Days Later: Can Trump Find an Off Ramp in the Gulf?
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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India’s Kashmir and Manipur Conflicts and their Consequences
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May 30, 2026 |
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The Trump-Xi Summit: What Happened in Beijing?
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May 16, 2026 |
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A Russia-Ukraine Ceasefire and An Evolving Battlefield?
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May 09, 2026 |
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Jihadist and Separatist Rebels Gain Ground in Mali
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May 01, 2026 |
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Lebanon’s Uneasy Truce
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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What Hope for the U.S.-Iran Talks in Islamabad?
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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After Three Years of War in Sudan, What Hope for a Ceasefire?
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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From Bad to Disastrous: Will Trump Escalate in Iran?
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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Is Cuba Next?
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Escalation or off-Ramp in the Gulf? And What Hope for a Ceasefire in Lebanon?
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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Operation Epic Folly? Trump’s and Netanyahu’s War on Iran
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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Special Episode: Regime Change or Regional War? U.S. and Israel Kill Iran’s Supreme Leader
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Mar 01, 2026 |
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Will Ethiopia and Eritrea Start a Regional War?
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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A Transport Route to Peace in the South Caucasus?
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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Phase Two in Gaza?
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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Norway’s FM Espen Barth Eide on Greenland, Iran, Trump’s Board of Peace and other crises
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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The Greenland Showdown and Board of Peace at Davos
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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What Next for Iran?
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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From Venezuela to Greenland? Trump’s Gunboat Diplomacy
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Jan 10, 2026 |
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Special Episode: What Next for Venezuela?
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Trump Brokers Rwanda-DR Congo Deal, Rwandan-backed Rebels Advance
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Fighting on the Cambodia-Thailand Border
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Dec 13, 2025 |
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UN stamps Trump plan, Gaza in Limbo, Saudi Crown Prince in Washington
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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At Home and Away: President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s Year in Power in Syria
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Election Standoff Grips Cameroon and Jihadists Squeeze Mali’s Capital
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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Drug War or Regime Change? Trump’s Venezuela and Western Hemisphere Policy
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Special Episode: What Does the RSF’s Seizure of El Fasher Mean for Sudan’s War?
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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What’s Next for the Houthis in Yemen?
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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Another South Asia Cross-Border Crisis: Afghan and Pakistani Forces Clash
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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Can a U.S.-Arab Roadmap Stop Sudan’s War?
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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Special Episode: Rob Malley on Gaza, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the wider Middle East
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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What to Make of Trump’s Gaza Plan?
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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What to Make of Trump’s Ukraine Diplomacy?
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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The UN’s Uncertain Future
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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The DR Congo-Rwanda Deal, Trump’s Mediation and African Politics
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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A Twelve-Day War, A New Middle East?
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Jun 28, 2025 |
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Special Episode: “Totally Obliterated”? Trump’s Iran Strikes and What Iran Might Do Now
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Will he? Won’t he? The Trump Iran Show
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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Military Rulers and Jihadist Rebels in the Sahel
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Jun 14, 2025 |
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Special Episode: Israel Strikes Iran
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Bomb the Cartels? Expel the Migrants? Reboot Monroe? Trump and Latin America
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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Bonus Episode: The New Scramble for Peace (and Minerals) in DR Congo
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May 30, 2025 |
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Netanyahu Against the World? Anger Mounts over Gaza’s Starvation
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May 24, 2025 |
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Until Next Time? The India-Pakistan Truce
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May 17, 2025 |
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Trump in the Gulf
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May 10, 2025 |
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What Hope Do the Ceasefire Proposal and Minerals Deal Offer Ukraine?
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May 03, 2025 |
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Will Myanmar’s Devastating Earthquake Impact its Civil War?
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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South Sudan on the Brink of Another War
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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Israel Goes Back to War in Gaza
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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Trump, France and European Security
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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What Does the PKK Ceasefire Mean for Türkiye, Iraq and Syria?
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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A Decisive Turn in Sudan’s War?
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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U.S. and Russia Start Ukraine Talks, Transatlantic Ties Unravel
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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How Will Trump Deal with Iran?
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Trump’s Gaza Plan
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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Can Diplomacy Stop Rwandan-backed Rebels in the Eastern DRC?
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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What's Next for Syria?
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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Trump in Africa
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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North Korean Forces in Russia and North East Asia Security
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Trump and the World
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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Strongmen and Geopolitical Jostling in Central Africa
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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The “Generals’ Plan”, Sinwar’s Death and a Year in Gaza
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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Can Either Trump or NATO Membership Help End the Ukraine War?
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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“Restoring Deterrence”: Dangerous Words in the Middle East
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Will Israel’s Bombing Start an All-out War or Force Hizbollah Back from the Border?
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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The United Nations in a Divided World
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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What Hope for a Gaza Ceasefire and What Happens Without One?
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Pakistan’s Political Standoff and Surging Militant Violence
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Finland’s President Alexander Stubb on NATO, Europe’s Security and its Relations with the Rest of the World
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Houthi Strikes, Red Sea Shipping and Yemen’s War
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Ukraine and European Security
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Türkiye in its Neighbourhood: “Strong in the Field, Strong at the Table”?
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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A Big Week for Democracy: Elections in India, South Africa and Mexico
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Ruto in Washington: Kenya’s State Visit and the U.S.’s Africa Policy
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May 31, 2024 |
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Iranian President Raisi’s Sudden Death and the ICC Case Against Israeli and Hamas Leaders
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May 25, 2024 |
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South China Sea: The World’s Most Treacherous Waters?
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May 17, 2024 |
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War and Hunger in Gaza and Darfur
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May 10, 2024 |
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Egypt and Gaza: Cairo Talks, Sinai Fears
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May 03, 2024 |
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Could a Competitive Vote Offer a Way out of Venezuela’s Crisis?
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Bonus Episode: Polarisation, Political Violence and the U.S. Elections
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Out of the Shadows: Exchanges of Fire Between Iran and Israel
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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What’s Left of Sudan After a Year At War?
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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The Moscow Attack, Afghanistan’s Islamic State branch and the Ukraine War
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Conferences in Germany, India and Türkiye and the Demise of Peace Deals
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Haiti in Freefall
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Starving Gaza
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Military Rule and Russian Mercenaries in the Sahel
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Great Lakes Politics and the Fight for the Eastern DR Congo
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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“Axis of Resistance” versus U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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The Red Sea and the Horn
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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War of Attrition in Ukraine
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Ten Conflicts to Watch in 2024
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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A New Phase in the War in Gaza?
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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Iran: Gaza, “Axis of Resistance” and Nuclear Calculations
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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What Threat Does the Rebel Offensive in Myanmar Pose to the Junta?
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Will There Be a Day After for Gaza?
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Sudan’s Collapse and the Demise of Peacemaking
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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What Hope for a Ceasefire in Gaza
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Gaza, Ukraine and An Inflection Point in World Politics?
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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War in Gaza: To What End and At What Cost?
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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No Going Back? Hamas’s Atrocities and Another Catastrophe in Gaza
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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A Long War Looming in Sudan
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Bonus Episode: What Egypt Wants in Sudan
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Is This the End? Wagner in Russia, Ukraine and Africa
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Blinken in Beijing: Will the Secretary of State's Visit Calm China-U.S. Tensions?
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Myanmar’s Forgotten War
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Could Jihadists Seize Parts of Coastal West Africa?
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Libya: Political Gridlock, Regional Politics and Sudan’s War
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May 26, 2023 |
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Riyadh and the World: What to Make of Saudi Arabia’s Recent Diplomacy
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May 22, 2023 |
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Fighting in Khartoum, Talking in Jeddah
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May 12, 2023 |
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What to Expect from Ukraine’s Counter-Offensive
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May 05, 2023 |
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What Can Stop Sudan’s Devastating War
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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War in Sudan
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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Drones and Diplomacy: Will Türkiye’s Elections Change its Middle-Power Activism?
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Somalia’s Latest Battles Against Al-Shabaab
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Iran: A Deal with Saudi Arabia, Closer Ties to Russia and the Looming Nuclear Crisis
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Will the Ukraine War Blow U.S.-China Relations Further Off Course?
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Another Year of War in Ukraine?
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Insecurity and Identity Politics Ahead of Nigeria’s Vote
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Mark Malloch-Brown on the Ukraine War and Challenges to Open Societies
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Israel-Palestine’s Worsening Violence and Despair
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Great Lakes Tensions Spike After Rwanda Nearly Downs a Congolese Fighter Jet
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Bonus Episode: Eritrea’s Long Bitter Feud with Ethiopia’s Tigray
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Ten Conflicts to Watch in 2023
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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Can Foreign Forces Tackle Haiti’s Gangs?
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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No End in Sight in Ukraine?
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Football and Politics in the Gulf
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Finland's FM Pekka Haavisto on the Ukraine War, European Security and Peacemaking Elsewhere
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Ethiopia’s Tigray War: After the Cessation of Hostilities, What Next?
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Lula and Latin America’s Leftward Lurch
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Nov 05, 2022 |
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After the Crackdowns, is Chad’s Transition Unravelling?
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Can a New UN Envoy Help Resolve Libya’s Political Crisis?
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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An Escalatory Spiral in Ukraine?
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Coup in Burkina, Russia in Mali and a New Chapter in the Sahel?
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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The U.S. and the Taliban after the Killing of al-Qaeda Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Back to War in Ethiopia
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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What to Watch at the UN General Assembly, plus Ukraine’s Kharkiv Offensive and the Armenia-Azerbaijan Border Clashes
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Iraq’s Political Crisis, Moqtada al-Sadr and a Divided Shia House
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Season Finale: Ukraine and an Unsettling Few Months in Global Politics
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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India’s Response to Russia’s War in Ukraine
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Finland’s NATO Application, Western Policy in Ukraine and the War’s Global Fallout
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Rollercoaster Politics Ahead of Kenya's August Elections
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Peacemaking After Ukraine: A Look at Nagorno-Karabakh and Libya
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Who is Rodolfo Hernández, Colombia’s “TikTok King”, and Can He Win the Presidency?
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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New President in Somalia, New Opportunity for Reconciliation
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May 27, 2022 |
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Shades of Jihad in Syria
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May 20, 2022 |
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A Perilous Free-for-all in the Eastern DR Congo?
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May 13, 2022 |
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Taliban Rule in Afghanistan
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May 06, 2022 |
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Is the Danger of a NATO-Russia War Growing?
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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European Security and France’s Election in the Shadow of Russia’s War in Ukraine
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Pakistan After Imran Khan’s Ouster: Tests at Home and Away
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Can a Truce and New Government Help End Yemen’s War?
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Can a “Humanitarian Truce” Help End Ethiopia’s Civil War?
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Decoding Russia’s Nuclear Threats over Ukraine
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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The Fallout from Ukraine: Iran Talks Stalled; U.S. Woos Caracas?
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Mar 19, 2022 |
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France’s Troop Withdrawal from Mali
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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International Women’s Day Special Episode: Can War Be Feminist?
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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The Ukraine War: A View from Moscow
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Any Hope Left For Diplomacy Over Ukraine?
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Mar 05, 2022 |
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Russia’s War in Ukraine
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Feb 26, 2022 |
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Can Western Diplomacy Still Avert War in Ukraine?
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Turkey's Foreign Relations Balancing Act
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Feb 05, 2022 |
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Another Coup in West Africa: The Burkina Faso Military Seizes Power
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Special Episode: Ten Conflicts to Watch in 2022
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Will the Iran Nuclear Deal Survive and What Happens if Not?
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Can the U.S. Address Migration’s “Root Causes” in Central America?
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Russia in Africa
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Will Russia Invade Ukraine?
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Western Policy and Afghanistan’s Humanitarian Devastation
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte: Populist or Peacemaker?
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Bosnia Unravelling?
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Will Tigrayan Rebels Attack Ethiopia’s capital?
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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The Military’s Dangerous Power Grab in Sudan
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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U.S.-China Tensions and Beijing’s Show of Strength in the Taiwan Strait
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Cameroon's Forgotten Anglophone Conflict
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Lebanon is Falling Apart
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Could Talking to Mali's Jihadists Bring Peace?
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Avoiding Another Afghanistan: Could Al-Shabaab Seize Power in Somalia?
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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License to Kill: Lawyering in the War on Terror
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Al-Qaeda and ISIS Twenty Years after 9/11
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Afghanistan: the Islamic State, still no Taliban government and a looming humanitarian catastrophe
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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Special Episode: What Will the Taliban Do Next?
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Iraq: Protests, Iran’s Role and an End to U.S. Combat Operations
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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The Taliban’s Advance in Afghanistan
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Ten Years of South Sudanese Statehood
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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A Dramatic Turn in Ethiopia’s Tigray War
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Biden in Europe
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Iran: the Vote and the Bomb
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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COVID-19, Inequality and Protests in Colombia
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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The Insurrection in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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What Does Hamas Want?
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May 27, 2021 |
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Another War: Views from Israel/Palestine
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May 20, 2021 |
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UN Security Council Crankiness and Antonio Guterres' Re-election
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May 12, 2021 |
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Delayed Palestinian Polls, Israeli Politics and U.S. Middle East Policy
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May 06, 2021 |
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What Déby’s Death Means for Chad and the Region
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Rising Russia-Ukraine Tensions and the West
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Is The Gulf Dispute Actually Over?
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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How Afghanistan Views the U.S. Troop Drawdown
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Tshisekedi Consolidates Power in DR Congo
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Ethiopia’s Tigray Crisis and Horn of Africa Politics
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Good News in Libya?
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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The War on Drugs in Colombia’s Countryside
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Special Episode: Gender and Conflict
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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A Dangerous New Turn in Yemen’s War
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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The War in the Sahel
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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The Coup in Myanmar
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Latin America’s Tough Year Ahead
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Africa in 2021
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Syria’s Frozen Conflict
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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U.S. Sanctions: An Overused Foreign Policy Tool?
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Social Media and the U.S. Capitol Events
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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10 Conflicts to Watch in 2021
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Trump’s Morocco-Israel Transaction
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Michael Kovrig: Two Years in Arbitrary Detention in China
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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Regime Change Re-examined
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Afghanistan's Peace Process
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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Ethnicity and Conflict in Myanmar
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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“First, Do No Harm”: A New U.S. Foreign Policy under Biden?
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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Protests against Police Brutality Shake Nigeria
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Can the U.S. Avoid an Election Crisis?
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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What Makes Peace? Colombia’s Ex-President Santos Says It’s Harder than War
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Turkey Flexes Its Foreign Policy Muscles
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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What’s Behind the Fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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President Trump’s Off-the-Rails Foreign Policy
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Libya's Proxy War
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Ethiopia's Political Crisis
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Afghan Peace Talks: Dealing with the Taliban
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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Israel, the UAE, and Normalisation
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Sep 03, 2020 |