Weekly International
Press Brief
March
07 - 11 : III : 2016

5 Years of Syrian War

> Civil War in Syria

> Five Years of War in Syria: What Happened and Where We Are Now

> The Ceasefire in Syria: Behind the Scenes and Current Implications

5 Years after Fukushima

> Far from Finished, Five Years After Fukushima

Arch of Crisis

> Is Iran Still Israel’s Top Threat?

> Five years on: A new European agenda for North Africa

> New Turkey-PKK Peace Talks: An Inevitability Postponed

> The Rule of Law in Contemporary Ukraine

> Worrying signals from Afghanistan

Terrorism

> The Changing Nature of the ISIS Insurgency

> U.S. Attacks Reveal Al-Shabab’s Strength, Not Weakness

> Counter-Extremism in India: ISIS, al-Qaeda, and Beyond

> Hezbollah Labeled Terrorist by GCC States – But What Do Their People Think?

Brexit

> After the ‘Leave’ Vote: The UK’s European Year Zero

> Cameron’s referendum puts votes before security

Great Powers

> Hell Cometh to Earth: Is a U.S.-China War Really Possible?

USA

> The U.S. Immigration Debate

> State parties can reduce polarization and improve the political system

> The Obama Doctrine

> It’s Time to Abandon the Pursuit for Great Leaders

> The Death of Our Treaties

China

> China’s Risk Map in the South Atlantic

> How China bucked Western expectations and what it means for world order

> The Implications of China’s Military Reforms

> China’s Silk Road Belt Outpaces Russia’s Economic Union

European Union

> Europe’s Troublemakers: The Populist Challenge to Foreign Policy

> The Western Balkans: back in the EU spotlight

> The complex tale of EU cohesion

> Forever on the Periphery? The Return of Geopolitics to EU Enlargement to the Balkans

Middle East

> Vers la fin de l'Etat rentier en Arabie Saoudite?

> A Quiet Revolution: The Tunisian Military After Ben Ali

> The Kurds Are the Key to the Middle East

> Israel’s Shrinking Democracy

Latin America

> Postconflicto en Colombia – El potencial internacional de la paz

> Repensando la Geopolítica de América Latina. ¿Es necesario un estudio geopolítico de América del Sur?

Asia

> Modinomics at Two

> Get Ready, India: China's Navy Is Pushing West

> Turkmenistan: Power, Politics and Petro-Authoritarianism

> Is the India-Pakistan Conflict Really Intractable?

> Is China Finally Fed Up With Kim Jong-un’s North Korea?

Africa

> Sacrificing Democracy for Security? Shifting International Priorities in Africa

> Jacob Zuma Is Leading South Africa toward the Edge

> Conflict, Peace and Patriarchy: Female Combatants in Africa and Elsewhere

International Security

> Global defence spending 2015: the big picture

> Collaborative diplomacy for 21st century security

> Rethinking the Apocalypse: Time for Bold Thinking on the 2nd Nuclear Age

Multilateralism

> Navigating the changing geo-economic landscape

Gender and International Politics

> The futures past of the Women, Peace and Security agenda

Strategy

> A geoeconomic strategy for the new normal

Essay

> Martin Wight Memorial Lecture: Powers of a kind: the anomalous position of France and the United Kingdom in world politics

> Helping Hurts: Why Supporting Dictators Can Doom Them

> Beyond Iron and Blood: The Complex History of Realpolitik

Books & Reviews

> The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation [Introdução]

> How the French Face Terror

> The State That I Am In: Hannah Arendt in America

> The First Congress

> ‘The Triumph of William McKinley,’ by Karl Rove

> The Boys are Dead: The Roboski massacre and Turkey's Kurdish question

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