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<p><strong>By Svante E. Cornell and S. Frederick Starr</strong></p> <p><strong>October 3, 2023</strong></...

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Jacob Zenn is an adjunct assistant professor on African Armed Movements and Violent Non-State Actors in World Politics at the Georgetown University Security Studies Program (SSP) and editor of Terrorism Monitor and senior fellow on African and Eurasian Affairs for The Jamestown Foundation in Washington DC. He authored the book, Unmasking Boko Haram: Exploring Global Jihad in Nigeria, which was published in April 2020 by Lynne Rienner …

By Trend Bidens statement on 1915 events will push Turkey even further away from the US, Svante E. Cornell, Director of the Institute for Security and Development Policy, and one of its co-founders told Trend . It appears unclear to me what that this action by the Biden administration is attempting to achieve. By contrast, the negative implications of the declaration are obvious: Turkey will be pushed even further away from the United States, and more people in Turkey than before will conclu...

   BACKGROUND: It is by now commonplace to observe the gradual decline of the norms and institutions upholding international peace and security. This has been a central vector of the criticism of the Trump Administration’s “America First” policy. While this decline has accelerated rapidly in the past four years, it predates the Trump Administration by almost a decade. A key moment was the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008. Moscow proved able to change international boundaries by forc...