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Recent Articles

• Toward More Science, Less “Art” in Medicine 

  August 06, 2026

  by- Joel Adu-Brimpong

  For years we’ve comforted ourselves with the idea that medicine is part art, part science. But what if most of what we call “the art of medicine” is simply the shadow cast by the limits of science, and the rest where our knowledge is still incomplete? 

• 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.