CIRSD Recommends
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Understanding the Failure of U.S. Foreign Policy: The Albright Doctrine
How to describe U.S. foreign policy over the last couple of decades? Disastrous comes to mind. Arrogant and murderous also seem appropriate. Since 9/11, Washington has been extraordinarily active militarily—invading two nations, bombing and droning several others, deploying special operations forces in yet more countries, and applying sanctions against many.
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The outbreak of the second Cold War
Regular readers of this column will not have been surprised by the outbreak of the Second Cold War. Ever since President Trump imposed the first tariffs on Chinese imports last year, I have argued that the trade war between the United States and China would last longer than most people expected and that it would escalate into other forms of warfare.
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Hurting China is causing damage to the world
Given the American administration's trade war on China escalates, the question is whom China can rely on in this delicate moment of its 40-years-long economic history of opening up to the world, except on its own effort.
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Religious Freedom in Ukraine
The United States strongly supports religious freedom, including the freedom of members of groups to govern their religion according to their beliefs and practice their faiths freely without government interference.
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Ten years after Lehman: Can liberal democracy survive another financial crisis?
It seems we have not learned the lessons of the recent past and may be doomed to repeat them in the future.
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Chagos Islands dispute: UK 'threatened' Mauritius
The British government has been accused of threatening a close ally in an increasingly bitter diplomatic tug-of-war over the fate of a tiny, strategic archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
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In Morocco, a Draft to Dodge Radicalization
The country could be a U.S. ally to contain Iran if malcontented youths don’t destabilize it first.
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Making plans for a new world order
Europe's relationship with the US was changing even before Donald Trump and his provocative Tweets came along. Germany now sees the current trans-Atlantic antipathy as a historic opportunity to redefine the EU's role, writes Germany's foreign minister.
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Why ‘we’ got Turkey wrong (and China. And Russia. And Iraq)
In addition to warning us of the growing tide of populism and nationalism, and bashing Donald Trump, Pundits in Washington and other Western capitals have been also spending also a lot of time, debating ‘How the West got China wrong,’ as The Economist put it, which was just another way of asking, well, ‘How The Economist got China wrong.’
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Billionaires reach for the stars while world suffers
With all due respect to Jeff Bezos and other billionaires who plan to spend billions of dollars of their personal wealth on space travel, hundreds of millions of children who lack access to basic health care and schooling more urgently need help right here on Earth.
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A Romanian village feels the country’s emigration pain
In tale repeated across Eastern Europe, population dwindles as young go west for better jobs.
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2018 SDG Index and Dashboards
The 2018 SDG Index and Dashboards Report “Global Responsibilities – Implementing the Goals,” prepared by the Bertelsmann Stiftung and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), is available now on www.sdgindex.org.
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Trump calls for Russia to be reinstated to G7
President Trump on Friday called for Russia to be reinstated to the group of leading industrial nations meeting at the G-7 summit in Quebec, saying the Kremlin “should be a part” of the talks.
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Ukrainian elections: Poroshenko and proliferating populists
Four years after Euromaidan, the overall picture is bleak. Former Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko has established a lead in the polls – but she has done so by profiting from social and economic problems rather than addressing past faults.
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Europe is on the verge of a big new crisis, just six years after the last one
Could it be that Europe is facing yet another existential crisis, six years after financial meltdown threatened the eurozone's collapse?
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Warsaw to Trump: Let’s make a military deal (without NATO)
It’s the kind of HUGE deal that Donald Trump promised would be a hallmark of his presidency: Poland wants a U.S. Army armored division permanently stationed on its territory as a deterrent against Russia, and it’s willing to pay up to $2 billion to make it happen.
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Abe expresses hope for peace treaty progress as he departs for summit with Putin
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe left for Russia on Thursday to hold a summit with President Vladimir Putin and to attend an economic forum, with bilateral economic cooperation likely to be high on the agenda.
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5 takeaways from EU’s big Balkan get-together
It wasn’t a renewal of the wedding vows because the big ceremony never happened. It was two partners declaring they still want to be engaged — even though one is now playing hard to get.
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A Reckoning for Obama's Foreign-Policy Legacy
Veterans of the last administration are learning a hard lesson: Policies constructed by executive order and executive agreement are just as easily blown up by them.
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Trump’s only possible Iran strategy is a fantasy
Jeb Bush said Donald Trump would be a “chaos president.” And this week, President Trump lived up to the billing, choosing to defy virtually the entire world, including America’s closest European allies, and raising tensions in the most unstable part of the globe, the Middle East.
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UN puts brave face as climate talks get stuck
UN talks have been officially suspended as countries failed to resolve differences about implementing the Paris climate agreement.
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Can America's Credibility Survive the Death of the Iran Nuclear Deal?
It was never obvious that Donald Trump knew much about the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear deal with Iran, but he knew the important parts: It was Obama’s deal. It was a deal with Iran.
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AI will spell the end of capitalism
Feng Xiang, a professor of law at Tsinghua University, is one of China’s most prominent legal scholars. He spoke at the Berggruen Institute’s China Center workshop on artificial intelligence in March in Beijing.
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The Fracturing of the Transatlantic Community
The national security consequences of increasingly polarized publics have not yet registered in debates about the collective defense of the West.
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Africa and globalisation: Transforming from taker to shaper?
In recent years, a growing number of G20 nation states have used various forms of summit diplomacy to enhance engagement with the African continent through regular high-level meetings.
