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Israeli “Mediation”

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On March 11, 2022
Israel cuddling up to Russia continues to go as well as you might expect: Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy that he recommends Ukraine take the offer made by Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war - which includes many Ukrainian...
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Einmarsch Sudetenland, Leitmeritz – Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-2006-0017 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5483858 I've spent the last six years arguing, in essence, that we should be looking at contemporary politics through the lens of the interwar period. As Alexander Cooley and I argued...
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Illiberal “Soft Power”

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In foreign policy
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On October 22, 2021
It wasn't that long ago – maybe five or six years – that I last heard someone claim that Russia would never posses real soft power. After all, who could look at Russia's everyday corruption, its kleptocratic government, its extremely unequal distribution of wealth, and...
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