Congo blues: Scoring Kabila’s rule

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What will Labor’s landslide mean for Australia’s foreign policy?

By Peter J. Dean

While Australian voters clearly rejected the Trump administration, both the country’s leaders and electorate still support close US ties.
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Congo blues: Scoring Kabila’s rule

New Atlanticist May 6, 2025

Is Merz’s double-take chancellor vote a sign of things to come in Germany?

By Jörn Fleck and Jurek Wille

It took two rounds of voting in the Bundestag to elect Friedrich Merz chancellor, a sign of division unprecedented in modern German history.
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Congo blues: Scoring Kabila’s rule

New Atlanticist May 1, 2025

Foreign policy was a hot topic in Canada’s election. Now it’s on Carney to make it last.

By Imran Bayoumi, Maite Gonzalez Latorre

The campaign is over. Now, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney faces several important choices, from how to increase defense spending to what a new relationship with the United States should look like.
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Congo blues: Scoring Kabila’s rule

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History’s clock is ticking (again) in Germany

Likely incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s election-night mention of the need for “independence” from Washington signals the stakes of this moment for Germany and Europe.

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Congo blues: Scoring Kabila’s rule

New Atlanticist Feb 4, 2025

The next German chancellor must lead from the front, not the middle, on European security

By Rachel Rizzo, James Batchik

From support for Ukraine to defense spending, German leaders would be wise to take the phrase Führung aus der Mitte permanently out of their vocabulary.
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Congo blues: Scoring Kabila’s rule

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Germany’s economy has gone from engine to anchor. Here’s what the next chancellor faces.

By Piotr Arak

Revitalizing growth in Germany’s economy, which appears increasingly mired in stagnation, will demand urgent action from the next chancellor.
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May 11, 2016

Congo blues: Scoring Kabila’s rule

By Pierre Englebert

Across Africa, leaders are tinkering with term limits and prolonging their tenures. In an increasingly unstable Central African region, Joseph Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), appears poised to be the next African leader to sidestep the relinquishing of power and the election of his successor, constitutionally mandated for November 2016. […]

Africa Civil Society

In the News

May 8, 2016

Remarks by Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates at 2016 Distinguished Leadership Awards Featured by the BBC

By Atlantic Council

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Elections Politics & Diplomacy

In the News

May 5, 2016

Ghaddar in Now News: Lebanese Shiites Disrupting the Status Quo

By Hanin Ghaddar

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Elections Middle East

In the News

May 5, 2016

Hellyer in The National: We Should Hold the Same Standards

By H.A. Hellyer

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Elections Politics & Diplomacy

In the News

May 4, 2016

Bensahel Joins NPR’s All Things Considered to Discuss US Presidential Candidates Foreign Policy Toward ISIS

By Nora Bensahel

Defense Industry Elections

In the News

Apr 28, 2016

Schechter Quoted by the Associated Press on Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Strategy Toward Latin America

By Peter Schechter

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Elections Latin America

In the News

Apr 28, 2016

Dungan Quoted by the Guardian on Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Strategy

By Nicholas Dungan

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Elections European Union

In the News

Apr 28, 2016

Ward in War on the Rocks: Trump’s Foreign Policy And Hillary Clinton The Hawk

By Alex Ward

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Elections Politics & Diplomacy

In the News

Apr 27, 2016

Dungan Interview by Le Temps on Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Strategy

By Nicholas Dungan

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Elections Politics & Diplomacy

In the News

Apr 26, 2016

LeBaron Quoted by Bloomberg on US Presidential Candidate Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Strategy

By Richard LeBaron

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