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Abbas Milani

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Abbas Milani is Director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.

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  1. A Dangerous Dance for Israel and Iran
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    A Dangerous Dance for Israel and Iran

    Oct 4, 2024 Abbas Milani sees both countries walking a tightrope to maintain deterrence without provoking a full-blown war.

  2. Iran’s Succession Crisis Is a Legitimacy Crisis
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    Iran’s Succession Crisis Is a Legitimacy Crisis

    May 27, 2024 Abbas Milani explains why few Iranians within or outside the country truly mourn the death of President Ebrahim Raisi.

  3. The End of the Islamic Republic
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    The End of the Islamic Republic

    Jun 22, 2021 Abbas Milani sees in Iran's recent presidential election an outcome that is at once farcical and hugely consequential.

  4. The Post-Suleimani View from Iran
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    The Post-Suleimani View from Iran

    Jan 4, 2020 Abbas Milani examines the Islamic Republic's strategic thinking following the assassination of its top general.

  5. Trump Is Strengthening Iran’s Radicals
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    Trump Is Strengthening Iran’s Radicals

    Oct 13, 2017 Abbas Milani says the US president is making a historic mistake by returning to a confrontational strategy.

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    Trump at the Gates

    Joschka Fischer urges Europeans to recognize that they are now on their own in an increasingly dangerous world.
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    The End of Progress?

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Though the United States has long led the world in advancing basic science and technology, it is hard to see how this can continue under President Donald Trump and the country’s ascendant oligarchy. America’s rejection of Enlightenment values will have dire consequences.

     predicts that Donald Trump’s second administration will be defined by its rejection of Enlightenment values.
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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Will the China hawks in Donald Trump’s administration railroad him into a confrontation that transcends tariffs and embraces financial sanctions of the type the US and the European Union imposed on Russia? If they do, China's leaders will have to decide whether to decouple from the dollar-based international monetary system.

     thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.
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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.

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