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The death of Khamenei will mark the biggest political change in the Islamic Republic since the death of the last supreme leader in 1989. But those hoping for a kinder, gentler Iran are likely to be disappointed.

Europeans do not back the euro simply because they fear the alternatives, but because the status quo offers them real rewards.

The United States must develop a modern nuclear arsenal, including low-yield warheads, lest it lose the ability to credibly defend its allies against potential attacks by rivals such as China and Russia.

It is now up to British voters to decide whether the United Kingdom should leave the European Union - not to foreign leaders, including US President Barack Obama and IMF head Christine Lagarde, who have offered their advice on what the right choice might be. The voters, however, would do well not to automatically dismiss what Obama and Lagarde have said. Rather, they should reflect on their substantive merits.

Has Venezuela’s opposition gotten its mojo back? The answer is a qualified “Yes.”

Cohen and Cogan portray U.S. involvement in Congo in the 1960s as necessary and relatively benign. Weissman replies.

What determines whether attempts at democratic transitions will be successful? Past experience offers some insights. We conducted extended interviews with 12 former presidents and one former prime minister who played vital roles in the successful democratic transitions of Brazil, Chile, Ghana, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, South Africa, and Spain. Some were leaders in authoritarian regimes who nevertheless helped steer their countries toward effective democracy.

In three short responses, Peter Feaver, Allison Stanger, and Michael Walzer discuss the legitimacy of whistle-blowing in the Trump administration, debating whether the cascade of leaks from the White House and other parts of the executive serves to protect or undermine American democracy.

Last December, during a debate among the Republican candidates for the U.S. presidency, Senator Ted Cruz attacked the idea that the United States should pursue regime change in Syria. If Washington tries to topple Bashar al-Assad, Cruz warned, the jihadists of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (also known as ISIS) “will take over Syria, and it will worsen U.S. national security interests.”

As the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris came to a close in December 2015, foreign ministers from around the world raised their arms in triumph. Indeed, there was more to celebrate in Paris than at any prior climate summit. Before the conference, over 180 countries had submitted detailed plans to curb their greenhouse gas emissions. And after two weeks of intense negotiation, 195 countries agreed to submit new, stronger plans every five years.

The scholar Edward Corwin famously described the separation of powers between the executive and the legislative branches set out in the US Constitution as “an invitation to struggle for the privilege of directing American foreign policy.” With different parties controlling different branches of government, partisan politics tends to intensify this struggle, and the consequences can be ugly. A look back at the earlier strife offers useful context for evaluating today’s bitter divisions and their likely outcome. The main takeaway is not comforting to contemporary Republicans: trying to fight a no-holds-barred war over foreign policy against a determined White House can limit the effectiveness of US efforts abroad and discredit those who launch what can come to be seen as obstructionist assaults.

With the E.U. and the United States increasingly divided, this moment may mark the beginning of a new China-E.U. axis in global politics.

Khmer New Year is the closest thing Cambodia has to a High Holiday, and in April, Prime Minister Hun Sen celebrated it in style with his fiercest opponent.

A century on, discussions about the Ottoman massacre of Armenians are still dominated by questions surrounding the use of one fraught and divisive word: "Genocide". Washington should use the term, but also recognize its many limitations.

In the wake of the San Bernardino attack last December, US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called for a ban on all Muslims entering the country. In an interview with Fox Business shortly after the attack, Trump explicitly connected the failed assimilation of Muslim immigrants to terrorism: “Go to Brussels. Go to Paris. Go to different places. There is something going on and it’s not good, where they want Shariah law...There is no assimilation.”

Peace talks, if not peace itself, may be close at hand in Afghanistan. Over the past few months, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Afghan Taliban have made unexpected strides toward talks.

Brazil's failure to create accountability surrounding the military dictatorship that ruled the country for 15 years from 1964-85 may help explain how Jair Bolsonaro, an apologist for torture and dictatorship was able to rise to power.

As any kid who grew up in the 1930s and 1940s could tell you, reading comics was a guilty pleasure. “Why are you wasting your time reading these silly things?” our parents would ask.

The Western business community is optimistic that Xi could begin a push for long-awaited reforms. It shouldn't be.

Liu Xiaobo's death should remind the West to uphold its commitment to protecting human rights, particularly in light of China's growing influence.