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A new Kulturkampf podcast! This week, Selim Koru and I are joined by Nate Schenkkan to discuss his article "How Syria Broke Turkey" kulturkampftr.substack.com/p/turkey-in-th…

Simplistic histories of the War on Terror only make fixing our foreign policy harder. A fantastic piece from Joe Stieb warontherocks.com/2024/09/the-wa…

warontherocks.com/2024/09/the-wa… I've got a new piece out today with War on the Rocks! It's a review of Richard Beck's new history of the War on Terror, Homeland. It's a pretty tough review. I don't think Beck has a persuasive account of why the United States fought the WoT, the reasons/

Delighted to join Ian Lesser in speculating about how the U.S. election might impact Turkey, courtesy of Deger Akal dw.com/tr/türkiye-içi…

Some fascinating weekend listening for War on the Rocks members. Ambassador Jose Manuel Romualdez offers a view from the Philippines on dealing with China, cooperating with the U.S. and the state of the world more broadly. warontherocks.com/episode/unspen…

“Where did the Middle East come from, and where did the Near East go?” Nicholas Danforth answers these questions, and more, in this week’s edition of Mid-Afternoon Map. ow.ly/YYzw30sGpSf

Where did the Near East go? This week's Mid-Afternoon Map explains warontherocks.com/2024/09/mid-af…

“Where did the Middle East come from, and where did the Near East go?” Nick Danforth answers these questions and more in this week’s edition of Mid-Afternoon Map. ow.ly/WqS330sGrv8

Israel having the ability to target militant networks in this sophisticated way as well as its targeting of high level Hamas figures abroad makes its operation in Gaza look even more deliberately genocidal

ChatGPT really just trying to start a war with this Middle East map here:

This was a delight. Many thanks to Nathan J Robinson currentaffairs.org/news/the-worst…

“Where did the Middle East come from, and where did the Near East go?” Nick Danforth answers these questions and more in this week’s edition of Mid-Afternoon Map. ow.ly/eQp230sGvjx

I'm late to this thoughtful pair of reviews from Emma Ashford and Joe Stieb looking at Daniel Immerwahr's How to Hide an Empire: warontherocks.com/2019/05/the-ca… warontherocks.com/2019/04/an-emp…

Sure, and the people pointing this out would also be explaining why the attack was totally legitimate. Its almost like no one has a particularly consistent position on this kind of thing

The Ottoman Empire comes up more than you might expect in Moby Dick... kulturkampftr.substack.com/p/melville-in-…

Nick sat down with Joe Stieb, author of "The War on Terror Was Not a Morality Tale," which was published on September 12. ow.ly/6Ah430sGzSz