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The United States and United Nations flags. (Getty Images)
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US Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up as he addresses the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2016 Policy Conference at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC, March 21, 2016. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
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People wave Turkish flags in front of an electronic billboard displaying the face of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a rally on the streets of Kizilay Square on July 17, 2016 in Ankara, Turkey. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
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Reinaldo Arenas poses while at home in Paris, France during June of 1988. (Ulf Andersen/Getty Images)
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Foreign Ministers from China, France, Germany, Iran, Russia, Britain, and the US on July 14, 2015 in Vienna, Austria. (Thomas Imo/Photothek via Getty Images)
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Iraqi Christians, who fled the violence in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, pray during a Christmas mass in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq on December 24, 2014. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)
Experts
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
