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Rachel Myrick argues polarisation reshapes how democracies conduct foreign policy. The DiploPolis review tests that argument against India's Operation Sindoor, Israel's war aims and Pakistan's civil-military imbalance — and finds it travels further than expected, but not everywhere.
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Lebanon's president spent four days in Washington asking America to move Israel's army from Lebanese territory. He called Trump a great president. Trump said he could have anything. He got airline routes. The territory remains occupied. This analysis reveals the limits of small state strategy.
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Lebanon's president spent four days in Washington asking America to move Israel's army from Lebanese territory. He called Trump a great president. Trump said he could have anything. He got airline routes. The territory remains occupied. This analysis reveals the limits of small state strategy.
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The ICC issued warrants. The UN issued resolutions. The G7 issued communiqués. None of it moved Trump on Netanyahu. Arab leaders did it in a private conversation, in Trump's language, about Trump's interests. The method reveals what the last 18 months have taught pragmatic states.
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Modi avoids the press and fills stadiums instead. Twelve years. Four continents. The same formula every time: a crowd mobilised by invisible machinery, a press conference declined by visible design, and footage heading home to an audience trained not to ask why.
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Raphael Lemkin coined genocide in 1944, got it into law in 1948, and died with seven people at his funeral in 1959. The ICJ's 15-2 order in South Africa v Israel proves he built something precise enough to apply — and a world too compromised to apply it. He built it anyway.
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Modi has received 33 foreign honours. The Knesset created a medal for his arrival while the ICC had active warrants for Netanyahu. Seychelles created an award three days before he landed with an AI-generated misspelled certificate. The awards are domestic. The cost is international.
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