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Niger's accusation of Western chicanery hits close to home

By Taiwo Hassan on Jan 21, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image As the year 2024 wound to a close, Niger’s junta leader, Brigade General Abdourahmane Tchiani, made accusations that France is using neighboring Nigeria as a staging ground to destabilize his country.
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Trump: 'our power will stop all wars'

By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos on Jan 20, 2025 03:53 pm
Featured Image In his inaugural speech Monday, President Donald Trump pledged to build "the strongest military the world has ever seen." It was just one note in a broader composition about restoring confidence and pride in the country — "the start of a thrilling new era of national success."
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Symposium on Biden's foreign policy: The good, bad & ugly

By Responsible Statecraft on Jan 20, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image Joe Biden's presidency will end at noon on Monday and so will, by many accounts, his disastrous foreign policy. Or was it? Much ink has been spilled about how President Biden handled the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and while we know how many of his decisions played out almost in real time, in some respects, the true outcomes of other choices he made in those conflicts won't be known for some time.
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Exit stage left: Biden's curious Cuba move

By William LeoGrande on Jan 18, 2025 09:18 am
Featured Image President Joe Biden’s January 14 removal of sanctions imposed on Cuba during the first Trump administration could have been a major step toward restarting Barack Obama’s policy of engagement if Biden had done it in his first week as president instead of his last.
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It's over: Biden is last gasp of failed post-Cold War internationalism

By Daniel McCarthy on Jan 17, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image Joe Biden’s place in history is as the man under whom the liberal international order unraveled.
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Biden worked 'tirelessly around the clock' — to prevent a ceasefire

By Trita Parsi on Jan 16, 2025 06:03 am
Featured Image There is little doubt that President-elect Donald Trump’s posture vis-a-vis Israel is a key reason why a ceasefire in Gaza has finally been achieved. According to a diplomat briefed on the matter, this was “the first time there has been real pressure on the Israeli side to accept a deal.”
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