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The best way to secure a more peaceful future for Afghanistan is through a United Nation peacekeeping operation.
While campaigning for the White House, U.S. President Joe Biden promised Americans that he would reenter the nuclear deal with Iran, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), so long as Tehran returned to compliance with the agreement’s original terms. Recent polling indicates that this would be a popular move: a majority of the American (and even Iranian!) public would support a joint...
For Jewish Israeli politicians the temptation to draw back into what is left of the old ethnic consensus will be great. But including the Palestinian citizens in politics and society is the only way to defend Israeli democracy.
Academic research can go a long way to shape the debate or can have no effect at all. The problem is that scholars don’t know – and may never know – how their work has been received by policymakers and whether it steered a policy decision in a good or bad direction.
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Daniel J. Levine is the Aaron Aronov Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Alabama, where he divides his time between the Departments of Political Science and Religious Studies. He is the author of Recovering International Relations: The Promise of Sustainable Critique (Oxford UP, 2012), with publications appearing and forthcoming in numerous scholarly journals and volumes. His current research deals with fear and its role...