How Qatar Became One of the Middle East’s Biggest Problems
Is its strategy finally collapsing?
March 11, 2026
“Preemptive progressive signaling” and other coping mechanisms.
From 2017 through 2021, Ilana Horwitz, a sociologist studying religion and education, and her collaborators followed 145 mostly religious students at an elite university, interviewing them at intervals about their relationships with religion. They write:
Is its strategy finally collapsing?
The selection of Mojtaba Khamenei signals a move from theocracy to military dictatorship.
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“Preemptive progressive signaling” and other coping mechanisms.
The story of a menorah carving.
From 2017 through 2021, Ilana Horwitz, a sociologist studying religion and education, and her collaborators followed 145 mostly religious students at an elite university, interviewing them at intervals about their relationships with religion. They write:
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