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America's oldest journal of contemporary world affairs. Founded 1914.
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In our new Middle East issue, @AllanHassaniyan examines environmental injustice in Iran: water and other resources are extracted from peripheral regions that are home to ethnic minorities, and protesters face severe repression. https://t.co/d2baHqXskX
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This article examines the persistent problem of environmental injustice and degradation in Iran from a peripheral and subaltern perspective. The systematic extraction of oil, gas, water, and various...
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In our annual Middle East issue, Eleanor Gao @UniofExeterNews explains Jordan’s precarious social contract keeping the monarchy in power amid regional upheaval. https://t.co/OpSwomPDyQ
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A small country in a volatile region, Jordan has remained reliably stable since its founding in 1946. While its neighbors have endured persistent wars and internal conflicts, Jordan has absorbed...
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In our annual Middle East issue, Mehmet Gurses examines the transformation of Turkey's four-decade Kurdish conflict and the prospects for a peaceful resolution in a time of regional upheaval. https://t.co/tM805RbKg3
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In February 2025, Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) founder Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned since 1999, called on the organization to disarm. The group swiftly complied, first declaring a cease-fire in...
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In our new issue, @omardahi explains the sudden fall of Syria’s Assad dynasty after half a century and its uncertain aftermath as former jihadists move to consolidate power. https://t.co/iJbJri0ta4
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The Assad regime, with backing from allies Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah, seemed to have survived a long civil war that began in 2011, and was beginning to emerge from regional isolation. But when...
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Enjoy free access (for a limited time) to this essay in our December issue by @LeilaTayeb on the everyday difficulties of navigating divided and militarized Libya. https://t.co/GVgY63wwSt
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When the Soumoud Convoy to Gaza was stopped outside the Libyan city of Sirte in June 2025, it offered a particularly visible example of what the division of Libya has looked like for ordinary people...
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My latest in the Dec issue of @CurrentHistory1: When Health Is the Target: Violence, Restriction, and Neglect in Palestine Read here:
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Syria’s Assad regime launched relentless attacks on health care infrastructure during its war against its own people. Israel has since used the same tactics in the Gaza war, though it has imposed...
Also in our new Middle East issue: @AllanHassaniyan on environmental injustice in Iran, @Yara_M_Asi on Israel’s targeting of Palestinian health infrastructure, and Steven Brooke on Egypt’s adaptive Salafists. https://t.co/ZBzdgj4dAI
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Also in our new Middle East issue: @AllanHassaniyan on environmental injustice in Iran, @Yara_M_Asi on Israel’s targeting of Palestinian health infrastructure, and Steven Brooke on Egypt’s adaptive Salafists. https://t.co/ZBzdgj4dAI
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Our annual Middle East issue is out! Featuring @omardahi on the fall of Syria’s dynasty, @LeilaTayeb on mobility in militarized Libya, Mehmet Gurses on the transformed Kurdish conflict, Eleanor Gao on Jordan’s tenuous social bargain… https://t.co/ZBzdgj3FLa
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In our November special issue on anti-governance, @DrDuncanBell probes tech tycoons’ posthumanist projects in a review of Adam Becker's book "More Everything Forever." https://t.co/f4LIC2eoZi
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Silicon Valley oligarchs are pursuing science-fiction ambitions of immortality and interstellar conquest, with origins in post-Darwinian and colonial thinking.
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In our special issue on anti-governance, Holly Case (@BrownHist) probes the dark arts of authoritarian fact-making, and the dilemmas of how to respond. https://t.co/WyDUka9emX
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Observers have long noted authoritarians’ tendency to manufacture their own facts. But opponents are often frozen by a fear of unintended consequences.
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In our special issue on anti-governance, Erol Saglam explains how conspiracism went mainstream, in Turkey and beyond. https://t.co/6bqXUFapuZ
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No longer consigned to the margins of society, conspiracy theories have been normalized as integral to public discourse and governance in many countries. But as developments in Turkey illustrate,...
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In our November special issue on anti-governance, @CettaMainwaring, @AndoneaDickson & Thom Tyerman argue that hardline measures to criminalize migration are ushering in autocracy. https://t.co/nRwu2mR6uM
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The Trump administration’s rapid expansion of immigration controls across the United States is often cast as exceptional. Taking a historical, transnational view reveals that this rising authoritar...
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In our November special issue on anti-governance, Erik Jones (@Ej_Europe) explores the reasons for the revolt against institutions in advanced industrial democracies. https://t.co/Aeo7fQDhmL
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The populist revolt against liberal democratic institutions in the United States and elsewhere is not necessarily an irrational backlash, but reflects many voters’ calculations of self-interest....
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Enjoy free access (for a limited time) to this essay in our November special issue by @RosalesAntulio, on the links between cryptocurrency, corruption, and authoritarianism, from the United States to El Salvador and Venezuela. https://t.co/felOlAfQFD
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Cryptocurrencies have become a key component of global democratic backsliding. The imbrication of cryptocurrency and current authoritarianisms has been largely understated and misunderstood as a...
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Also in our new special issue: Erol Saglam on conspiracism going mainstream, @RosalesAntulio on cryptocurrency and corruption, Holly Case on authoritarian fact-making, and @DrDuncanBell on tech tycoons’ posthumanism. https://t.co/zzRAeWtGXm
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Our November special issue on Anti-Governance is out! Featuring Erik Jones (@Ej_Europe) on the abandonment of institutions, @CettaMainwaring, @AndoneaDickson & Thom Tyerman on hardline migration control, @gideonlasco on medical populism… https://t.co/zzRAeWtGXm
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In our annual Russia and Eurasia issue, @JEugeneClay reviews a new book on the late-Soviet efflorescence of eclectic spiritual movements. https://t.co/Y6DWtWFzwn
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Soviet reverence for science and utopian visions inspired a profusion of faith groups in the USSR’s end times, but the influence of globalization was also strong, and it continues to shape Russia’s...
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In our annual Russia and Eurasia issue, @AghaBayramov details the Caspian ecological crisis and the region's green energy ambitions. https://t.co/C5cx3cskUa
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The Caspian–European Union Green Energy Corridor is a strategic initiative to bolster energy security and diversification in a tense geopolitical climate. The corridor hinges on large-scale renewable...
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Joel Mokyr, a newly announced Nobel laureate in economics, contributed to our special issue The Future of Capitalism 12 years ago. For a limited time, enjoy free access to his essay: https://t.co/sUg02SgFfV
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The economics of a world of information and automation is radically different from that of a world of wheat, steel, and railroads.
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just got my paper copy of the new Current History with this baby as top billing. @CurrentHistory1
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