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Jun 2024
1h 13m

Summer & War with Sarah Borgi (Ep.406)

Ronnie Chatah
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Reflecting on the July 2006 War and UNSCR 1701 eighteen years later, during a time of escalation and regional war's expansion. Looking back on humanitarian assistance in times of emergency and crisis, the Lebanese government's negotiating role in helping shape UNSCR 1701, a return to border conflict and battlefield over armistice and deterrence and the lack ... Show More
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