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Iranian workers walk past a destroyed residential building due to Israeli attacks in Tehran, Iran, on June 13, 2025. (Morteza Nikoubazl via Getty Images)
Democracy
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Egyptian university students gather on November 26, 2013, in Alexandria, Egypt, to protest the anti-demonstration law, which bans protests without prior police approval. (Ibrahim Ramadan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Christian devotees take part in a holy procession on Good Friday in Kampala, Uganda, on April 15, 2022. (Nicholas Kajoba/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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The China-donated Gwadar Technical and Vocational Institute in southwest Pakistan's Gwadar on October 1, 2021, just after the building's completion. (Photo by Str/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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A protest in Lagos, Nigeria, on May 22, 2018, after an attack in Benue state that killed at least 18, including two Roman Catholic priests. (Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images)
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan waves to supporters in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on July 2, 2022, during a protest rally against inflation, political destabilization, and hikes in fuel prices. (Photo by Farpq Naeem/AFP via Getty Images)
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Michael R. Pompeo delivering a speech at Hudson Institute. (Cherie Cullen).
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The Taiwanese container ship Ever Greet next to a vessel of China's state owned COSCO shipping company in the Rotterdam harbor on March 2, 2022. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)
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Members of the Portuguese chapter of Falun Gong demonstrate outside Belem Palace on July 12, 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos/Corbis via Getty Images)
Experts
Joshua Meservey
Senior Fellow
