The crisis of the state’s legitimacy
WHEN key institutions are manipulated whimsically, the logical consequence is failure of the state. And such a consequence is more than imminent if a country is also facing a severe legitimacy crisis....
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Diplomacy or insinuation?
WHEN envoys from the United States and Iran met at the Green Zone offices of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki on Monday, it marked the first official diplomatic talks between...
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