The Compass

End of US sanctions only a first step for new Syria

  • December 16, 2025
  • Robert Coalson

A conversation with Andrew Tabler

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‘Here begins the Great Game’

  • December 11, 2025
  • Matthew Stevenson

The scars of Russia’s 2008 invasion of Georgia

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The two kinds of state solution

  • December 2, 2025
  • Stephen B. Maly

After the Gaza war ceasefire, might there be a creative way to ensure peace?

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The Kremlin’s spiritual phishing

  • October 31, 2025
  • Andrei Kordochkin

Click on ‘traditional values’ and get kidnapping, torture, murder.

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In Japan, slow but steady progress

  • October 28, 2025
  • Katherine Roth Kono

Becoming the first female prime minister may be a milestone in other countries, for Japanese, her qualifications are more important.

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Defending our ideals in the face of adversity

  • October 14, 2025
  • Suren Avanesyan

Democracy is about our rights.

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Lessons from the post-WWII refugee crisis

  • October 1, 2025
  • Dmitry Kharitonov

Sheila Fitzpatrick discusses her new book about the mass resettlement of displaced Soviets.

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After war with Israel, will Iranians support their regime?

  • September 9, 2025
  • Barry Rosen

Both nationalism and resistance are surging. Which will endure?

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A forgotten vision for Middle East peace

  • September 3, 2025
  • Daniel Warner

In 1919, the King-Crane Commission on the defunct Ottoman Empire issued a report one historian called ‘one of the great suppressed documents of the peacemaking era.’

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The ‘Switzerland of the Caucasus’

  • August 21, 2025
  • Aron Ouzilevski

A weekend in Dilijan, Armenia.

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