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upporting anti-Shi'a forces in Lebanon, supporting (it is said, and the Iranians presumably believe that the rumors are true) ISIS. They've got the Yemen war on one side, and they can't let Jordan fall. This is a heavy burden, even for them. Iran, say the hawks, can win a war of attrition with the H

ed region cool down. Walter Russell Mead is James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College and Editor-at- Large of The American Interest magazine. E FTA_R1_02204477 EFTA02720821 Article 2. Wall Street Journal The Caliphate Rises Editorial June 27, 2014 -- The jihadists of the I

, http://foreignpolicy. com/2016/06/10/now-polands-government-is-coming-after-the-internet/. 23. Ibid. 24. Henry Foy, “Poland’s New Majoritarians,” American Interest, June 7, 2016, http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/06/07/po- lands-new-majoritarians/. 25. Roberto Foa and Yascha Mounk, “Across the Globe, a

gional rivals, chiefly Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have responded with more direct foreign interventions of their own, most notably in Yemen. The recent embrace of more overtly repressive policies stems in part from the common structural flaws of the modern authoritarian model. The questi

the Gulf showdown has been two of the liveliest democracy movements in countries right on the fault line, Bahrain and the turbulent frontier state of Yemen. But many worry that the toll could wind up much HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023459 --- PAGE BREAK --- 3 worse if tensions continue to ratchet upward. They s

See Harold James’s retroview, entitled “Growing Pains”, of a classic December 1963 essay by Mancur Olson (“Rapid Growth as a Destabilizing Force”) in The American Interest (September/October 2006). HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023482 --- PAGE BREAK --- 26 Article 4. NYT The Budget Debate, Revealed Richard W. Stevenson April