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Articles in Politics tagged with Global

What the concert hall attack means for the Russian leader's future.

Rajan Menon

On the Guyanese revolutionary’s writings on anticolonial struggle.

Noaman G. Ali, Shozab Raza

Polish director Agnieszka Holland's new film exposes the violent contradictions at the heart of EU border policy.

Paul Hockenos
Andrew Ross

Redistributing land was once central to global development efforts—and it should be today.

Jo Guldi

The courts have become a flashpoint in the United States and Israel—but for very different reasons.

Jonathan S. Gould, Jacob S. Abolafia

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On stopping the fighting and building the peace.

Rajan Menon

Though the organization’s legacy has been domesticated, its grassroots leadership embraced the global fight for freedom.

Dan Berger

Sovereign states have been mythologized as the natural unit of political order. History shows how new they are—and how we can think beyond them.

Claire Vergerio

Not by repudiating democracy but by simulating it, a new book argues.

William E. Scheuerman

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