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Recent Articles

• Europe Can’t Buy Security Without Rebuilding Its Military Culture

  July 10, 2026

  by- Elif Memet

  To safeguard hard-fought democracy, Europe has accepted it must fund defense. But it also defends democracy in how it justifies that funding.

• Building a Stable Syria: The Omani Model 

  July 01, 2026

  by- Christian Voelker

  This article examines how Oman’s sectarian plurality among its citizen population, dating back to the founding of the Sultanate in 1970 under Sultan Qaboos after a British-backed coup, remains stable. We'll also use Yemen, since its founding as the Republic of Yemen in 1990, as a counterexample to Oman to illustrate how politicized identity structures can lead to disaster. We'll then examine how thesee two case studies can inform the reform of a post-Assad Syria toward long-term stability.

• To Prevent Violence in Schools in India, We Must Invest in Boys

  May 27, 2026

  by- Akshay Narayanan

  If we want to reduce violence against all children today and interpersonal, gender-based violence in the future, we must work directly with boys, the group most often turning to violence as a tool of communication.