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February 5, 2016

Libya
Weekend Reading: Fact and Fiction in Libya, a Saudi in Iran, and “Turkishness”

Reading selections for the weekend of February 5, 2016.

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

May 9, 2022

Philippines
Ferdinand Marcos Jr Appears to Have Won Convincingly: Here’s What That Means for the Philippines

Marcos Jr's decisive victory would change the political landscape in the Philippines.

Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., the son and namesake of the late Philippine dictator, delivers a speech during a campaign rally in San Fernando, Pampanga province, Philippines, on April 29, 2022.
Blog Post by Joshua Kurlantzick Asia Unbound

September 8, 2021

United States
Seven Movies Worth Watching About 9/11

With the twentieth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks this Saturday, we recommend sources for better understanding 9/11 and its aftermath. Today: seven movies about 9/11.

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Blog Post by James M. Lindsay and Anna Shortridge The Water's Edge

December 13, 2011

China
Emerging Economies, Private Companies, and Global Economic Power

Source: UNCTAD World Investment Report 2011 In the wake of the 2008 economic crisis, economists, investors, and even politicians have pinned their hopes on the major emerging markets as the new engi…

Emerging Economies, Private Companies, and Global Economic Power
Blog Post by Shannon K. O'Neil Latin America’s Moment

June 5, 2015

Iraq
Weekend Reading: Debunking Iraq’s Myth, Demolishing History in Egypt, and Biking Syria’s Civil War

Sara Pursley, in a two-part report on Jadaliyya, debunks the myth of Iraq as an artificial state. Mahmoud Riad protests the demolition of the National Democratic Party’s headquarters in Cairo. Ahma…

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates