Analysis
Crafting a diplomacy-first US foreign policy
US President-elect Joe Biden has made it clear that diplomacy will be at the centre of his administration’s foreign policy. Biden has pledged to rejoin the…
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Boris Johnson, the Antithesis of Margaret Thatcher?
They may have led the same political party, but everything else places Boris Johnson as the polar opposite of his revered Conservative predecessor, Margaret Thatcher. Her…
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Trump Faces Critical Choice About His Political Future
Donald Trump is nearing a crossroads. Those who allege that he has endangered the tradition of smooth presidential transitions by not conceding immediately after the media…
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The impact of the new Asian trade mega-deal on the European Union
Although the economic implications of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) for the EU are modest, the geopolitical and strategic implications are not. With the arrival…
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Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy and Russia
Biden calls Russia the biggest threat to the United States, and sees Moscow’s policies as aimed at weakening Western countries internally; undermining the unity of such…
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Beijing wins in RCEP, but despite itself
Under Joe Biden, the US has an opportunity to turn the corner, while China continues to rely on economic coercion While it makes for good headlines,…
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Recognising Israel
THE planned futuristic Saudi city of Neom on the Red Sea coast was the venue of the G20 virtual summit last week, but something of greater…
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Why the Oxford Astra Zeneca vaccine is now a global game changer
In the long dark tunnel that has been 2020, November stands out as the month that light appeared. Some might see it as a bright light,…
Analysis
The time has come for a reckoning on US immigrant abuse
A letter to the UN by four congresswomen renews hope that abuse of detained immigrants in the US will finally be addressed. In mid-September, several organisations…
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A Good but Incomplete Start to Debt Relief
After initially responding to the pandemic-induced economic crisis with an initiative to postpone developing countries' debt payments, the G20 has now come back to the table…
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In Nepal, how domestic politics is colliding with geopolitics
The flurry of diplomatic activities is an indication that there is lot at stake here in the fast-emerging Asia-Pacific foreign policy and security architecture. The question…
Analysis
Biden transition will be rough and rocky
America is more deeply divided country than at any time since the Civil War The US election is, in fact, over and Joe Biden won and…