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    World politics in the age of deceptively easy answers

    Mar 28, 2019 3 minutes

    One day, we may look back at this time of anger and instability in world politics as the age of deceptively easy answers. But judging from identity crises gripping two important democracies – in Europe and the Middle East – it may be with us for some time yet.

    The key question isn’t why the promise of political panaceas has become so alluring. What matters most, if we’re to understand the

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