Iran Democracy Monitor No. 205
Paranoid in Tehran;
Full steam ahead on Iran's military buildup...;
...as the Revolutionary Guards draw a redline;
A step backward for Iran in Iraq
Paranoid in Tehran;
Full steam ahead on Iran's military buildup...;
...as the Revolutionary Guards draw a redline;
A step backward for Iran in Iraq
Indonesia versus radical Islam;
Burkina Faso mulls arming civilians again jihadists;
In Syria, local justice for foreign jihadists;
The chilling effect of the coronavirus;
The practical effects of the Taliban truce
Rising water levels threaten hundreds of Myanmar villages;
Climate change to bring more landslides in the future;
Locusts decimate East African food supply;
European infrastructure not prepared for climate change;
Tropical forests to become carbon emitters
Slowly but surely, Riyadh is beginning to look west. After years of comparatively modest engagement with the countries of East Africa, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is today putting in motion and ambitious strategy for engagement with the continent.
The New York Times’ decision of recent days to make a “clarification” to one sentence in the lead essay of its “1619 Project” won’t do much to quell a growing fight over the meaning of America’s founding — a fight with profound implications for the nation’s continuing influence around the world.