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The first thing that struck me during a trip to Cuba this month was how much it reminds me of Iran. Despite divergent ideologies—Communist, Islamic—the aging revolutions emit the same cranky melancholia. Rhetoric is still defiant, but public zealotry has atrophied. The graffiti of rebellion, once vibrant, has faded.
U.S. forces are assisting their Iraqi counterparts in wrestling the city of Ramadi from ISIS control. Robin Wright breaks down the city's significance and how other events like the Syrian civil war threaten stability in the region.
Robin Wright, distinguished scholar at the Wilson Center in Washington and the U.S. Institute of Peace, examines Kerry's remarks and the potential for U.S.-Russian cooperation on ISIS.
Five years later, the costs and consequences of the uprisings have stunned the world. “Perhaps we in the international community, and the people on the ground, were naïve and misled by how easy the Tunisians made it seem,” Sarah Leah Whitson, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, told me this week.
The nuclear accord may have been historic, but it didn't turn the tide of acrimonious relations between Washington and Tehran. BY Robin Wright. Those clarion pivots — Nelson Mandela's walk to freedom or the fall of the Berlin Wall — are enchanting.
A biblical land and its people are being wiped out by weapons of the twenty-first century. Syria, after almost five years of war, is strewn with the rubble of a shattered state, a fractured society, and a demolished landscape.
The attacks in Paris on Friday were the deadliest in France since the Second World War. The jihad’s many tentacles have now terrorized Western targets on six continents.
... upgrading Special Operations forces in the Kurdish city of Erbil, and enhancing security aid to Lebanon and Jordan as well. Robin Wright, a distinguished scholar at the Wilson Center in Washington and the U.S. Institute of Peace, discusses the new ...
Reports of another hostage will almost certainly complicate Iran’s recent overtures to the West, discourage foreign business, and undermine further diplomacy. By Robin Wright October 30, 2015
Iran can no longer downplay its intervention in Syria’s civil war; there are too many public funerals these days. Two generals were killed in action this month. So was a senior bodyguard of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In recent weeks, senior Revolutionary Guards commanders—advertised as “military advisers”—have died on three separate fronts. By Robin Wright October 26, 2015