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Our Top Weekend Reads

Why Biden thinks the way he does about foreign policy, what the future holds for an America on the brink, and what the Cold War policy of containment means for our current moment—all from our latest magazine issue.

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Allison Meakem

Trump Mounts Last-Minute Attempt to Starve Funding for Foreign Aid, Global Vaccine Efforts

But congressional sources say it’s highly unlikely lawmakers will cut billions of dollars of already appropriated funding.

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Robbie Gramer

The End of Swiss Neutrality

The country is campaigning for a seat on the U.N. Security Council, but taking on that role will clash with some fundamental tenets of Swiss foreign policy.

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Stéphanie Fillion

Far-Right Extremism Is a Global Problem

And it is time to treat it like one.

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Heather Ashby

Mohammad R. Kalantari

Mohammad R. Kalantari is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London. His research focuses on political networks, doctrines, and elite ideologies in the region.

Stories by Mohammad R. Kalantari

Shiite Muslim pilgrims walk in front of posters of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the spiritual leader of the Shiite community Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, and the leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement Hasan Nasrallah during their procession from the holy Iraqi city of Najaf to the central shrine city of Karbala on Oct. 12, 2019.

Washington Doesn’t Understand Shiite Clerics in Iran or Iraq

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Mohammad R. Kalantari, Ali Hashem

January 30, 2020, 12:53 PM

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Mohammad R. Kalantari

Washington Doesn’t Understand Shiite Clerics in Iran or Iraq

Our Top Weekend Reads

Trump Mounts Last-Minute Attempt to Starve Funding for Foreign Aid, Global Vaccine Efforts

The End of Swiss Neutrality

Far-Right Extremism Is a Global Problem

Russia’s Security Agencies Are Both Terrifying and Incompetent