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Trapped in the Darien Gap

The Darien Gap is a stretch of densely forested jungle across northern Colombia and southern Panama. Roughly 60 miles (97 kilometres) across, the terrain is muddy, wet and unstable. No paved roads exist in the Darien Gap. Yet despite this, it has become a major route for global human migration.

Iran’s Resilience

The complexity of the region demands a nuanced understanding that transcends his- torical analogies.

Sans America

The argument goes that the narrative of a feckless and divided West has solidified over the past 25 years or so as the post Cold War world was ‘reconstructed’ and in recent years the highly disruptive Trump interregnum in the USA resulted in Americans putting a premium on restraint and limited engagements abroad.