Articles

Turkey’s failed coup gives its president a chance to seize more power

2016-07-17

Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls his opponents traitors, and now considers his case proved

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Trumpism: A New Era in World Politics?

2016-07-17

Donald Trump’s campaign for the American presidency also seems to draw on this understanding of democracy

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Turkey’s Baffling Coup

2016-07-17

Thanks to a series of sham trials targeting secularist officers, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had managed to reconfigure the military hierarchy and place his own people at the top

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Remaking Britain

2016-07-15

The first uncertainty is the date when exit negotiations will start

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The Silent Arab Majority Must Speak Up

2016-07-14

The situation in many Arab countries has gone from bad to worse

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Brexit, Trump, and Globalization’s Have-Nots

2016-07-14

Perhaps understanding the parallels between the two campaigns will help US voters avoid taking a similar path in November

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Iraq and Syria.. Islamic stateless?

2016-07-09

The jihadists are losing their caliphate, but they remain deadly

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Defusing Migration

2016-07-09

The “Brexit” vote represents a triumph of fear over reason

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The Promise of Regrexit

2016-07-09

The vote for Brexit was a great shock; the morning after the vote, the disintegration of the European Union seemed practically inevitable

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How to End Hunger

2016-07-09

Poverty and hunger are intimately connected, which is why the SDGs target elimination of both

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The Roots of Middle East Mistrust

2016-07-09

Low-trust societies participate disproportionately less in international commerce, and attract less investment

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Revisiting the Iraq War

2016-07-09

A central theme of the Report is that the Iraq War did not have to happen, and certainly not when it did

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WHAT NEXT FOR EU CITIZENS IN POST BREXIT BRITAIN?

2016-07-02

Once the U.K. is out, the fundamental principle of free movement will no longer apply

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Reawakening Europe

2016-07-02

Has Brexit paved the way for the decline of one of the EU’s most dynamic economies and the end of London’s reign as a global financial center?

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HOW BREXIT COULD STRENGTHEN ISIS'S MESSAGE OF HATE

2016-06-29

Xenophobia and the far right may big the biggest threat to security and could boost ISIS

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The ‘Leave’ Camp Won. That Doesn’t Mean Brexit Will Happen

2016-06-29

Referendums aren’t binding. Just ask the Greeks, who voted to reject EU austerity measures and then saw their government cave anyway

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A tragic split

2016-06-29

How to minimise the damage of Britain’s senseless, self-inflicted blow

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Here’s How the Brexit Will Actually Work

2016-06-27

The basics of what happens next are outlined in Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty

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Brexit and the Future of Europe

2016-06-26

. The European migration crisis and the Brexit debate fed on each other

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When Globalization Goes Digital

2016-06-26

It is unfair to dismiss concerns about globalization as unfounded

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A British Tragedy in One Act

2016-06-25

The decision to leave the EU will dominate British national life for the next decade, if not longer

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Britain’s Democratic Failure

2016-06-25

Did the UK’s population really know what they were voting on? Absolutely not

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The Era of Cheap Oil Is Coming to an End

2016-06-22

Prices have been low for more than two years. With demand rising and supply falling, that’s all beginning to change

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The Problem with Politicians as Historians

2016-06-22

Many politicians continue to spin the facts even after they have left office. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill once boasted that, History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it

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