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Though the prospect of a nuclear deal with Iran is obviously good news, it should not obscure the bad. Momentum toward a nuclear-weapon-free world, having faltered for a few years after US President Barack Obama’s landmark 2009 speech in Prague, has now gone into sharp reverse.

Though the prospect of a nuclear deal with Iran is obviously good news, it should not obscure the bad. Momentum toward a nuclear-weapon-free world, having faltered for a few years after US President Barack Obama’s landmark 2009 speech in Prague, has now gone into sharp reverse.

Whereas Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Republicans in the US bitterly oppose the framework nuclear agreement with Iran, the deal has been almost universally welcomed in Europe. What accounts for this disconnect within the West over a key…

Whereas Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Republicans in the US bitterly oppose the framework nuclear agreement with Iran, the deal has been almost universally welcomed in Europe. What accounts for this disconnect within the West over a key…

AIIB success is the result of a clever strategy shift by Beijing

AIIB success is the result of a clever strategy shift by Beijing

Unlike the old Middle East, whose fate was determined by the dominant Western powers (the UK and France after World War I, and the US from the 1940s until recently), the new one has no external hegemon to stabilize it. And, without a dominant regional …