Federalism in Post‐Assad Syria: Toward Durable Peace in a Pluralist Society
Middle East Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Syria's civil war has left behind a fractured state. While the new president, Ahmed al‐Sharaa, seeks to unify the country and restore centralized governance, this appears unworkable. Instead, this article contends, asymmetrical federalism offers a pathway toward stability.
Dilan Okcuoglu
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Russian Flu in Iran from 1889 to 1894. [PDF]
Arch Iran MedGolshani SA, Mansourbakht G, Mosleh G.
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Iran's Forward Defense in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Middle East Policy, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines Iran's security and defense initiatives in sub‐Saharan Africa between 1990 and 2024 and how they reflect the extraterritorial application of the regime's forward defense doctrine. In response to the long‐term erosion of its homeland defense capabilities since the Iran‐Iraq War of the 1980s—driven by infrastructure ...
Ariel Limanya Limbu, Ronen A. Cohen
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A geopolitical turning point? Enlargement discourse after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [PDF]
Eur Union PolitHunter T, Wunsch N, Bélanger ME.
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From Palestine Ally to Zionist Partner: India‐Israel Relations, 2014–2025
Middle East Policy, EarlyView.Abstract India's pro‐Palestinian diplomatic posture, which held for nearly 70 years, has been transformed within a single decade of rule by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), turning New Delhi into one of Israel's most consequential Asian partners. This shift has narrowed the coalition supporting the Palestinian cause.
Yücel Bulut
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Cliopatria - A geospatial database of world-wide political entities from 3400BCE to 2024CE. [PDF]
Sci DataBennett JS +12 more
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Russian horseman between the Muscovy and the Russian empire
Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Istoriya, 2021 openaire +1 more source
Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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"The soul that goes to the doctors does not live:" disease and illness among nineteenth-century Russian peasants. [PDF]
Hist Cienc Saude ManguinhosGolovashina O, Lyamin SK.
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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