Political Violence
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The world is brimming with crises. Leaders across the globe are burning the midnight oil, trying to find acceptable solutions to seemingly intractable strategic dilemmas, from the ongoing bloodshed in the historic lands of Kievan Rus to the unsettled prospects for a lasting peace in the Middle East to the dangerous sabre-rattling between Tokyo and
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For those interested in Central European political drama, I am including a link to a long article of mine that was published earlier today by the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), a Philadelphia-based think tank for which I’ve contributed analytic pieces for the past two years. In recognition of my work on Central Europe, FPRI
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Over the past eighteen months I have written four, long analytic pieces for the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), a Philadelphia-based think tank. The articles all focus on the roller-coaster politics of Central Europe, an area of the world near and dear to me. The latest of the four articles, focusing on the recent assassination
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With the shocking assassination attempt of a leading American public figure at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on 13 July, the United States joined a growing list of western democracies falling victim to the scourge of political violence. Just over two years ago, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated by a lone gunman
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