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On the morning of October 27th, 2019, the Trump administration announced that it had successfully organized a raid on a Northeast Syrian compound where the Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was assassinated by American special forces. Trump, aiming to bring as much public attention to this raid, tweeted a day before the announcement ofContinue reading “Investigating US Foreign Policy Approaches in Combating Terrorist Organizations in the Middle East”

Demonstrations of Iranian protests over the recent rise in fuel prices threatened the security of Tehran this past Monday as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard struggled to maintain the public unrest. Widespread unemployment and the collapse of the Iranian rial forced many to the streets through opposition to the national government. Since the United States removedContinue reading “Send a Tariff not a Missile: A Lesson in Combating Authoritarian Regimes”

My name is Gordon Hargraves and I am currently a senior at Bates College on track to graduate this Spring with a double major in Political Economy and Art and Visual Culture with general concentrations in Modern Middle East and Premodern History studies. If you are reading this blog you have probably been sent itsContinue reading “Introduction”