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A flag of the United Nations flies at the United Nations Offices in Geneva on August 14, 2025. (Getty Images)
Politics and Government
Politics and Government
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President-elect Donald Trump and vice president-elect Mike Pence listen to a question from the press regarding the musical 'Hamilton' before their meeting with investor Wilbur Ross at Trump International Golf Club, November 20, 2016 in Bedminster Township
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President of Brazil Michel Temer attends technical cooperation agreement signing ceremony with the Court Superior Electoral (TSE) at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil on October 11, 2016. (Ricardo Botelho/Brazil Photo Press/LatinContent/Getty Images)
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Protesters hold candles and banners calling for the resignation of South Korea's President Park Geun-Hye during an anti-government rally in central Seoul on November 19, 2016. (JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Fidel Castro speaks during the ceremony in which President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez was given the UNESCO Jose Marti award for his efforts in education, February 3, 2006 in Havana, Cuba. (Sven Creutzmann/Mambo Photography/Getty Images)
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House Speaker Paul Ryan listens to US President-elect Donald Trump speak to the press at the Capitol in Washington, DC, on November 10, 2016. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
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Cuban President Fidel Castro gives a speech in front of the U.S. Interest Section May 14, 2004 in Havana. (Jorge Rey/Getty Images)
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G.C. Williford walks past a barrel containing waste material that was removed from the apartment where a second person has been diagnosed with the Ebola virus on October 12, 2014 in Dallas, Texas. (Mike Stone/Getty Images)
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People stand atop a mass of destroyed houses that had been compressed by the force of floodwaters on May 31, 1889. (National Park Service)
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President-elect Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech during his election night event at the New York Hilton Midtown in the early morning hours of November 9, 2016 in New York City. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Experts
Bernard Haykel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Mary Kissel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
