Weekly International
Press Brief
April
18 - 22 : IV : 2016
 

Arch of Crisis

> Obama’s Former Middle East Adviser: We Should Have Bombed Assad

> Enough Carrots for Ukraine. Time to Break Out the Sticks.

> Indignación de Marruecos contra Ban Ki-moon: ¿es el Sáhara Occidental un territorio “ocupado”?

> Agents of the Russian World: Proxy Groups in the Contested Neighbourhood

> Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: why the ‘black garden’ will not blossom any time soon

Brazil Political Crisis

> The Slow Implosion of Brazilian Politics

> Crisis in Brazil

Climate Change

> Post-Paris: Taking Forward the Global Climate Change Deal

> On Earth Day, bring together the dreamers and the plodders on climate change

> Instituciones y políticas contra el cambio climático

Terrorism

> The Caliphate’s Global Workforce: An Inside Look At The Islamic State’s Foreign Fighter Paper Trail

> Assimilation is counterterrorism

> Countering violent extremism: the Horn of Africa

BREXIT

> Europe After Brexit: Unleashed or Undone?

> If Brexit, then Swexit?

Nukes

> What Should the World Do With Its Nuclear Weapons?

> The Nuclear Deal With Iran: The Final Step or a New Stage?

> Blurring the line between nuclear and nonnuclear weapons: Increasing the risk of accidental nuclear war?

Refugee Crisis

> Tangled Connections between Migration and Security in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings: A European Perspective

> The Tempting Trap of Fortress Europe

Pools

> Inside The Hearts And Minds Of Arab Youth

USA

> Kill The Czars: A No-Nonsense Approach to Security

> Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s New York Wins: A Preview of the General Election?

> US–Russian relations: The middle cannot hold

> A Nationalist Foreign Policy?

China

> How China Sees World Order

> China's Mediterranean Odyssey

> China Keeps the Peace

Russia

> Russia is here to stay - the UK should engage with it

> Putin’s downfall: The coming crisis of the Russian regime

> The Swedish Counter-Intelligence Report on Hostile Russian Activities in the Region in a Comparative Context

> What Would Economic Disintegration in Russia Look Like?

European Union

> Behind the New German Right

> The Spanish financial crisis: Lessons for the European Banking Union

> The In-Betweeners: The Eastern Partnership Countries and the Russia-West Conflict

> The EU-Turkey Action Plan is Imperfect, But Also Pragmatic, And Maybe Even Strategic

Middle East

> Tunisia’s Getting More Guns Than Democracy

> Israel and Turkey Approaching Reconciliation Amid Policy Challenges

> Intra-Regional Trade: Potential Catalyst for Growth in the Middle East

Latin America

> Cuba: The Big Change

> La economía de Venezuela se apaga

Asia

> India's East Asian Dream

> Brunei Desperately Looks to Diversify its Economy

> Water War: This River Could Sink China-India Relations

Africa

> Understanding African armies

> The Worst Dictatorship You’ve Never Heard Of

NATO

> NATO Needs Deterrence and Dialogue: Defining the New Balance in View of the Warsaw Summit

> NATO's Southern Exposure

Governance

> Global Risks and the Challenges for G20 Coordination: A Growth Agenda for China’s 2016 Presidency

Democracy

> Non-Western Ideas for Democratic Renewal

Essay

> Toward a Global Realignment

Books & Reviews

> Institutionally blind? International organisations and human rights abuses in the former Soviet Union [completo]

> Authoritarian Origins of Democratic Party Systems in Africa [excerto]

> A Nation at War With Itself

> ‘Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide’ – Book Review

> The fall of the Turkish model

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