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The Global Food Crisis Shouldn’t Have Come As a Surprise

How to Finally Fix the Broken System for Alleviating Hunger The world’s agricultural and food systems face a perfect storm. Overlapping crises, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, wars in Ukraine and elsewhere, supply chain bottlenecks for both inputs like fertilizer and outputs like wheat, and natural disasters induced by climate …

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Hackers, Hoodies, and Helmets: Technology and the changing face of Russian private military contractors

Introduction The first time Russia invaded Ukraine in the twenty-first century, the Wagner Group was born. The now widely profiled private military company (PMC) played an important role in exercising Russian national power over the Crimea and portions of the Donbas—while giving Moscow a semblance of plausible deniability. In the …

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Putin’s Fifth Visit to Tehran: Renewing and Bolstering Russian-Iranian Relations

Russian President Vladimir Putin participated in the seventh summit of the heads of states in the Astana Peace Process for Syria in Tehran, Iran, on July 19, 2022. This marked Putin’s first trip outside the post-Soviet bloc since Russia’s military attack on Ukraine, and it was only his second voyage …

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