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Dr. Azeem Ibrahim
Dr. Azeem Ibrahim

Azeem Ibrahim is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Global Policy and Adj Research Professor at the Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College. He completed his PhD from the University of Cambridge and served as an International Security Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and a World Fellow at Yale. Over the years he has met and advised numerous world leaders on policy development and was ranked as a Top 100 Global Thinker by the European Social Think Tank in 2010 and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He tweets @AzeemIbrahim

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 Assad cleaning evidence of his crimes: No easy feat

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 Coming Soon: Assad’s post victory retribution

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 Russia continues to show disdain for international law and diplomatic norms

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 New leadership to tackle ISIS in Libya

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 The passing of an icon

Last month marked 15 years since the death of Alija Izetbegovic, the first president of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Though Izetbegovic become a regular feature on international TV as the abandoned...