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More distant than ever

The inaugural issue of SOAS Law Journal is out. Bruce Caldwell (Duke) and Leonidas Montes (Adolfo Ibanez): Friedrich Hayek and His Visits to Chile. Amitai Etzioni (George Washington): No More Land Wars? George J. Mitchell on how the prospect of Israeli and Palestinian peace may seem more distant than ever — but a two-state solution is still the only path forward. Peter Bergen and David Sterman on how the ISIS threat to U.S. mostly hype. Katie Zavadski on the female recruiters of ISIS. Robert Coalson on how a famous Soviet dissident foreshadowed Putin's plan — in 1990: If the Kremlin is taking its cues from Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Eastern Ukraine is only a first step to "rebuilding Russia". From Vox, Sarah Kliff on 8 facts about violence against women everyone should know; and Alex Abad-Santos on why everyone should read the powerful stories of abuse and survival in #whyistayed and #whyileft. Did Eichmann think? Roger Berkowitz reviews Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Bettina Stangneth. Finally, Wall Street gets put on trial. Why can’t Obama fix the world? David Remnick wonders. Matt S. Whitt reviews The Ethics of Immigration by Joseph Carens. Why do newspapers keep publishing op-eds by John McCain? Looking back at the Arizona senator's track record, it's hard to see why anyone still treats him as a source of insight into what will happen next in geopolitics. Can the Coase theorem help us avoid fights on planes? The economics of reclining your airplane seat aren’t so simple. Travis Waldron on 10 big questions for the start of the 2014 NFL season.