Aslı Ü. Bâli is Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
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Aslı Ü. Bâli is Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
In Palestine and Kurdistan, promising experiments in self-determination draw on the region’s pluralist history.
We need to rebalance power away from executives and back to legislatures.
In a world imperiled by global pandemic, it is long past time to put an end to sanctions—including new ones against Iran—and to reconstruct U.S. foreign policy around international solidarity.
As the Trump–Putin summit made clear, U.S. policy in Syria has always been about grand strategy—never about what would actually help the people on the ground.
Could Trump's repudiation of the Iran Deal be the beginning of the end of U.S. hegemony abroad?
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