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While many intellectual traditions have tended to assess politics based on how well-suited they are for war, the English tradition was unique in tying good politics to the provision of peace. In fact, this tradition itself was founded in the first place by the civil war between Catholics and…

He smoked his cigar and said: “Let me tell you what the seller of secrets has not sold.” “One day a director of general security visited to me. He told me that Khomeini’s continued presence in Iraq will lead to strife and dangers,” he recalled. “He has not respected the condition of his hosts…

The resumption of Saudi-Iranian relations shows that everything in Iran falls under the absolute authority of the supreme leader, who’s so far the only decision-maker there, even if he wanted to take an imminent decision to end the crisis of the nuclear deal that is almost dead now. “Last…

It was two decades ago. The night of the earthquakes. The night of fates and destinies that led Saddam Hussein to the gallows, overthrew the Baath regime, toppled the “eastern gate” and allowed the embers of the Iranian revolution to flow in the region. The night shook the Iraqi maps and others…

As the Iranian new year of 1401 is drawing to a close, grand developments are occurring in the region. It used to be that the final days of the year were politically calm. State and the nation would pay more attention to domestic and home affairs and not international relations. But the events of…

This week, we mark the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the dictatorial regime, with all the pain and tragedy that was born of it, as well as all the hopes for prosperity and liberation from tyranny and injustice. The thunderous collapse of the regime was the result of decades of oppression,…

If we apply the legal scholar John A. Powell’s “targeted universalism” approach to eradicating poverty — an approach that involves setting a goal and recognizing that certain groups will need distinctive interventions for that goal to be met — then our attitude toward different antipoverty policies…

Compassion and solidarity took hold of the Syrians in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake. Overcoming the barriers of their divergent political positions and religious and sectarian affiliations, the Syrian people did not merely speak of their fraternity and send messages of support online…

Since the Chinese sage Sun-Tzu tried authored his “Art of War” almost 3,000 years ago almost all writers on military affairs have asserted that a rapid rate of population growth is the sine qua non for a nation’s decision to go to war. More recently, theory was elaborated by the Swiss mercenary…

After a career of writing about bank failures, I wound up in the middle of one when my bank, Silicon Valley Bank, was seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. On Saturday, when I tried to pay a bill online, I was greeted by this not very reassuring missive: “This page will be…

With all the recent developments and the conclusion of a new Saudi-Iranian agreement, which had not been expected in truth, it could be said that this is a "warrior's break" at best. From both recent and older bitter experiences, we have seen that our Iranian brothers often say one thing and do…

Many nineteenth-century European philosophers and thinkers put forward their interpretations of Greek tragedies, which Aristotle had been the first to engage with. Nonetheless, the grand occasion came in 1872, when Friedrich Nietzsche, at the age of twenty-eight, published his first book, "The…