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Authors
  • Vladimir (Ze’ev) Khanin

    Professor of Political Studies and the Head of the Post-Soviet Conflicts Research Program at the BESA Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
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    Political scientist
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    Political Scientist, expert of the «Election Atlas» project
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    Expert on Iran, Islamism and Russia’s foreign policy in the Middle East, author of the book «Iran for Everyone: Paradoxes of Life in an Autocracy under…
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    Political Scientist
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