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New Fault Lines in a Post-Globalized World
The economic damage of the coronavirus pandemic has upended the global economic system and, just as importantly, cast out the neoliberal orthodoxy that dominated the industrialized…
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Media freedom in Hong Kong and elsewhere needs defending more than ever
Threats against journalists and barriers to information access should be rightly viewed as attacks on human rights themselves Media Freedom Coalition and Unesco’s Global Media Defence…
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The long goodbye to Donald Trump
The American president is avoiding admitting defeat. If millions of citizens refuse to believe that the elections were clean, despite a mountain of evidence to the…
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Will Biden administration make climate a priority?
President-elect of the US has his task cut out for the most challenging issue of our times The 2020 election is over. And the big winners…
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NLD prepares for new era of changes and reform
Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy's electoral victory has emboldened its leaders to press on with major changes, including at the very top of the government.…
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Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy
The company wants to shut down an academic study of political ad targeting, just as it prepares to reinstate targeted political ads. FACEBOOK HAS BROUGHT its…
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What does the Nagorno-Karabakh deal mean for Turkey and Russia?
Ankara managed to get a foothold in the South Caucasus, but Moscow still has the upper hand in the region. On November 11, Russian troops took…
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RCEP shifts Indo-Pacific dynamics, blow to Delhi
The signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership has significantly altered the Indo-Pacific strategic environment While the entire world was focused on the American presidential election,…
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Will vaccines end our economic slump?
In the past week alone, we heard three good pieces of news about the success of Covid-19 vaccine developments from Pfizer, Moderna and Russia. All of…
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In Africa’s debt fog, China loses too
Zambia has been careening toward a debt debacle for months, even years. Now it has become the first African nation to default on sovereign payments since…
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Moscow’s New Rules
Simultaneous crises in Belarus, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Kyrgyzstan have demonstrated Russia’s maturing approach to its neighborhood. Russia is learning to mind its limitations; to repel residual nostalgia;…
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India gets ready for shifts in US-China relations under Biden
Much in the manner that a poor and a turbulent China became a critical element in the US-Soviet competition during the 1970s, even a weak India…
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Now is the time to put women at the heart of world’s economy
We are just days away from the G20 Leaders’ Summit, the first to take place in the throes of a global pandemic. Fully cognizant of the…
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The many identities of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris amount to this: A proud American
Instead of boastful hate tweets, the vice president-elect's victory speech showed gratitude and respect for the achievements of all American women. Kamala Harris is “Black” and…
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For the West, There Is No Road Back to a Time Before Trump
Europeans are relieved by Biden’s victory but will be very disappointed if they don’t heed the lessons of the past four years. We can all breathe…
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Keep RCEP in perspective
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) which was signed over the weekend at a virtual gathering in Vietnam is a welcomed, major initiative to reduce trade…