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3. In this Feb. 4, 1996, file photo one of four clothed skeletons being examined by U.N. investigator Elizabeth Rehn as she tries identify an estimated 8,000 Muslim men missing after the Serb conquest of the former Muslim enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995, lies on a hilltop.

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The Return of Nationalist Geopolitics: Liberal Backsliding and Armed Conflict

Summer 2026 by Lars-Erik Cederman, Paola Galano Toro, Luc Girardin, Andreas Juon and Julian Wucherpfennig

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Identity and Politics: Managing Diversity in the Middle East

Dec. 19, 2025 by Mark van de Fliert
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Knowing What Not to Know About Islamic State: Terrorism Studies and Public Secrecy

Summer 2025 by Sarah G. Phillips and Daniel J. Tower
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Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia

Spring 2025 by Nilay Saiya and Stuti Manchanda

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The Return of Nationalist Geopolitics: Liberal Backsliding and Armed Conflict

Summer 2026 by Lars-Erik Cederman, Paola Galano Toro, Luc Girardin, Andreas Juon and Julian Wucherpfennig

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from International Security

Identity and Politics: Managing Diversity in the Middle East

Dec. 19, 2025 by Mark van de Fliert

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from Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Knowing What Not to Know About Islamic State: Terrorism Studies and Public Secrecy

Summer 2025 by Sarah G. Phillips and Daniel J. Tower

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from International Security

Demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they wave the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 16, 2014.

Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia

Spring 2025 by Nilay Saiya and Stuti Manchanda

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from International Security

In this Friday, Jan. 16, 2015 file photo, Myanmar Buddhist monks shout slogans as they march to protest against a resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly calling on Myanmar to grant citizenship to Rohingya in Yangon, Myanmar.

Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe

Spring 2024 by Şener Aktürk

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from International Security

Armed with a double-barrelled shotgun, a young Turkish Cypriot leads women and children from the village of Ayios Sozomenos to another nearby large Turkish village following a gun battle between Greeks and Turks on Feb. 6, 1964.

Foreign Intervention and Internal Displacement: Urban Politics in Postwar Beirut

Winter 2023/24 by Amanda Rizkallah

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from International Security

Hezbollah supporters distribute sweets to passersby, as they celebrate the fall of the Syrian town of Qusair to forces loyal to President Bashar Assad and Hezbollah fighters, in Bazzalieh village, Lebanon, near the Lebanese-Syrian border, Wednesday, June 5, 2013.

5 Reasons the Israel-Palestine Conflict Won't End Any Time Soon

Jan. 8, 2024

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An Uyghur Chieftain in China's Civil War

January 2024 by Anatol Klass

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