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y. Saudi Arabia these days is all too reminiscent of the dying decade of the Soviet Union, during which one decrepit leader succeeded another, from Leonid Brezhnev to Yuri Andropov to Konstantin Chernenko, before a younger and more open-minded Mikhail Gorbachev arrived too late to save a stagnant society and e

ankaj Mishra Article 2. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace The Generals' Secret: Egypt's Ambivalent Market Zeinab Abul-Magd Article 3. Los Angeles Times Turkey struggles in the role of Mideast power during Syria crisis J. Michael Kennedy Article 4. The Daily Beast The British Prime Minister Is C

Russian nationalists that Russia is ruled by the Jews. There used to be murky circles in the Soviet Union of my childhood in which it was held that Leonid Brezhnev and his Politburo were Jews. Today's nationalists, monarchists and other "real Russians" like to point out that Putin's entourage includes people

aos Robert D. Kaplan and Kamran Bokhari Article 3. Forbes American Foreign Policy Must Take Into Account Dueling Irans Rob Sobhani Article 4. Los Angeles Times Will Iran crack? Meghan L. O'Sullivan Article 5. The Diplomat Are Obama's Iran Sanctions A Ruse? Robert Dreyfuss Article 6. Foreign Policy T

ns in 1947, 1949 and 1954 that all broke down according to tribal, regional and sectarian interests. Hafez finally ended the chaos by becoming the Leonid Brezhnev of the Arab world: He staved off the future by institutionalizing fear, even as he did nothing to nurture a civil society out of the country's inhe