Weekly International
Press Brief
September
29 : VIII - 2 : IX : 2016
 

G20 Summit

> Triumph of Internationalism or Trumping of Revisionism Begins at the 2016 G20

> Investment and Protectionism: A pre-G20 summit briefing

> G20 Summit: Leaving West to Deal With Crises, China Focuses on Positives

> The G20 Hangzhou Summit: Making Globalization Work

> Could the G-20 Become Coherent on Climate?

> How will China’s success at the G-20 summit be measured?


Brazil’s Political Crisis

> How to Fix Brazil: Breaking an Addiction to Bad Government

> Picking up the pieces in Brazil after Rousseff’s impeachment

> Political Fault Lines in Post-Rousseff Brazil

> Moving Forward: Brazil After Rousseff


Authoritarianism & Succession

> Heirless in Tashkent: How Autocratic Regimes Manage a Succession

> Un frágil Uzbekistán confía en una sucesión controlada

> America Shouldn't Enable Presidents-for-Life

> Uzbekistan's Presidential Transition


Obama’s Asian Pivot

> Obama’s China and Asia legacy is a “solid double”

> Obama’s Last Asian Trip: Dealing with China’s and Xi Jinping’s Contradictions

> Obama's Legacy in Asia: A Growing Rivalry?


Arch of Crisis

> Is there a path to peace in Yemen?

> There Is No Thirty Years' War in the Middle East

> Reforming Ukraine After the Revolutions

> Les ressorts de l’intervention russe en Syrie


Terrorism

> Al-Qa’ida and the Islamic State Benefit as Yemen War Drags On

> The Weakening of Wilayat Sinai

> New Masters of Revolutionary Warfare: The Islamic State Movement (2002-2016)

> Al Qaeda Is Gaining Strength in Syria

> Mali´s Young ´Jihadists´ – Fueled by Faith or Circumstance?


USA

> Liberal Hegemony and US Foreign Policy under Barack Obama

> The Emerging Clinton Doctrine?

> No More of the Same: The Problem with Primacy

> Why the U.S. President Needs a Council of Historians


China

> China Power: Unpacking the complexity of China’s Rise


Russia

> Russia in the grey zones

> A Transatlantic Strategy for Russia


European Union

> The Return of Europe’s Nation-States: The Upside to the EU’s Crisis

> No lesson learnt. What the failed coup in #Turkey teaches about Europe’s flawed neighbourhood policy

> How the Eurozone Can Be Strengthened After Brexit


Middle East

> The Islamic Republic’s War on Women

> The Political Economy of Sectarianism in the Gulf

> Turquía: impresiones sobre un golpe fallido


Latin America

> Paz y polarización: El plebiscito en Colombia

> Peace and Democracy in Colombia: Trading One to Get the Other


Asia

> A Separate Group for the ´Maritime´ ASEAN Nations

> The Hague Tribunal’s South China Sea Ruling: Empty Provocation or Slow-Burning Influence?

> How China Came to Dominate Cambodia

> Taiwan’s security policy

> Can SAARC Survive India and Pakistan's Squabbles?


Africa

> Civil War Within Nigerian Islam

> Behind the Violence in Ethiopia: Will Its Experiment With Ethnic Federalism Work?


Alliances

> Three Takeaways on U.S.-India Defense Ties

> China-U.K. Relations: Come What May

> Iran and Russia's Uncomfortable Alliance: Their Cooperation In Syria In Context


Global Trade

> Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership for the World Trading System


Nukes

> Is multilateral arms control possible?

NATO

> The Framework Nations' Concept and NATO: Game-Changer for a New Strategic Era or Missed Opportunity?"

Essay

> Strategic Studies, Conflict Resolution and Transnational Conflict


Books & Reviews

> Against Democracy [Capítulo 1]

> India’s War: The Making of Modern South Asia 1939-1945

> Counterterrorism Bookshelf: 21 Books on Terrorism & Counter-Terrorism-Related Subjects

> Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism

> The History of Central Asia (vol. 3)

> La fuerza de acontecimientos inesperados 25 años después

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