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UkraineAlert

Feb 20, 2018

Putin as Far as the Eye Can See, And Then What?

By Leonid Gozman

The Russian presidential election will take place on March 18. The outcome of the election is obvious: Vladimir Putin will keep his seat. However, although the name of the president won’t change, the country will. March 18 won’t just mark the end of the election campaign. It will also launch Putin’s last term, which will […]

Russia

UkraineAlert

Feb 19, 2018

Four Years after the Maidan, How Is the Investigation Going?

By Tetyana Ogarkova

On February 18, 2014, the most tragic part of the Revolution of Dignity started; more than one hundred people were killed, several dozens went missing, and over a thousand were wounded in Kyiv on February 18-20. Yevhenia Zakrevska, the leading lawyer of the so-called Heavenly Hundred families who lost loved ones on the Maidan during […]

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IranSource

Feb 18, 2018

Iran and India Revive Economic Relations with New Chabahar Agreement

By Masoud Mostajabi

The development of the strategic Chabahar port is becoming a success story in the Iran-India relationship. The Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman is a key project for the two countries. Originally agreed to in 2003 during the presidency of Mohammad Khatami and the prime ministership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the project was suspended […]

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AfricaSource

Feb 17, 2018

Ethiopia’s counterproductive state of emergency

By Kelsey Lilley

Following Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn’s sudden resignation on Thursday, Ethiopian authorities announced a six-month country-wide state of emergency (SOE), effective yesterday. This order, the country’s second in two years, imposes draconian restrictions on freedom of speech and assembly, while granting extended powers to the country’s already powerful security services. This decision is counterproductive to the […]

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AfricaSource

Feb 16, 2018

Ethiopia: At the precipice

By Bronwyn Bruton

Ethiopia’s declaration of a state of emergency (SOE) in the wake of widespread protests earlier this week suspends the few democratic rights that Ethiopian citizens enjoy and effectively empowers military decision-making above the civilian leadership of the country. As the ruling party has seesawed between peaceful and authoritarian gestures – first releasing dozens of important […]

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New Atlanticist

Feb 16, 2018

Russians Charged with Meddling in 2016 US Election

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Thirteen Russians and three Russian entities have been indicted by a grand jury for interfering in the US presidential elections in 2016, US Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office said on February 16. The thirty-seven-page indictment alleges that Russians’ operations “included supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J. Trump…and disparaging Hillary Clinton,” Trump’s Democratic opponent, […]

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New Atlanticist

Feb 16, 2018

The Kurdish challenge that is bedeviling the US-Turkish relationship

By Tulin Daloglu

US support for a Kurdish militia in Syria has become a point of contention in the US-Turkey relationship. Who are the Kurds and why is US support so contentious?

Turkey

New Atlanticist

Feb 16, 2018

The Munich Security Conference and Transatlantic Security

By Magnus Nordenman

The annual Munich Security Conference (MSC) which kicks off today may be a veritable who’s who in global security, but the conference is far more than just hobnobbing among the nearly five hundred senior security and defense officials in attendance. Frequently the MSC has been a bellwether for things to come in the global security […]

Trade in Action

Feb 16, 2018

TRADE IN ACTION February 16, 2018

By Global Business & Economics Program

HEADLINESAt the Munich Security Conference  IMF managing director Christine Lagarde elaborates on the ingredients of the global economy. Full interview here. Sweet: Steady and synchronized growth, driven by all engines: consumption, investment, trade. Employment. Sour: Financial vulnerabilities, inconsistent economic policies, government debt, geopolitical risks. Bitter Sweet: Increasing income and wealth inequality.More Key Quotes and Speeches and Remarks from the Munich Security Conference.

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SyriaSource

Feb 16, 2018

Is Russia Seeking a Peaceful Path?

By Frederic C. Hof

Between Moscow and Washington there is agreement on the desirability of a Syria reflecting territorial integrity, stability, empowered local governance, legitimate national governance, an active civil society, and a country rebuilding its physical infrastructure and its sense of shared citizenship. Even Iran might pose no objection to such an outcome, provided Syria remains a superhighway […]

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