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An image I’ll never forget: a woman passing her baby over the wall at the Kabul airport compound. It was August 2021 and the Taliban was sweeping back into Afghanistan. All I
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In the realist tradition of international relations, regimes driven by ideology and internal consolidation often transform into sanctuaries for non-state actors. They provide safe havens to aligned militant groups as proxies for
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In the refined idiom of jurisprudence! The term “shall” wields commanding authority of the highest order, elevating a mere expression into an obligatory mandate. More clearly, in legal parlance, the word “shall”
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The brief but intense India–Pakistan confrontation of May 2025 will likely be remembered not only for military exchanges or cross-border strikes, but for something equally significant: the contest over narrative, credibility and
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In Athens this week for the World Beautiful Business Forum, I took a tour of philosophical Athens. Beyond the Parthenon, I visited Plato’s Academy, the site of the first philosophical school. Our
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