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What Did Billions in Aid to Afghanistan Accomplish?
Expect a centralized, exclusive aid management system under the Taliban to replicate the same flaws, challenges 1. What did foreign economic aid accomplish in Afghanistan? Some…
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More Funding is Critical for the Most Vulnerable to Survive Climate Change
Our climate emergency is global, yet it does not affect everyone equally. For the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF)—a group of 48 countries spanning four continents—climate change…
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Sorry Boris, But Without China The COP is A Flop
• The British leader can enjoy a feeling of self-importance for hosting COP26 in Glasgow but at the end of the day, if the world’s biggest…
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The Developing World Needs Energy—and Lots of It
At COP26, leaders must find ways to allow much greater economic growth across large parts of the world. When the world gathers in Glasgow, Scotland, next…
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Who Will Bear the Financial Burden of Supporting the Rohingyas in Bangladesh?
As long as Bangladesh continues to host such large numbers of refugees it will need financial support. As of July 2021, only $366 million of around…
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Glasgow, Greta, and Good Intentions
With climate action trailing so far behind rhetoric, it is natural to wonder if all the talk is just hypocrisy. But it need not be: If…
Analysis
Kashmir Dispute
“A QUESTION like this cannot be solved unilaterally,” Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru categorically declared in the Lok Sabha on Feb 25, 1955. His sharp retort was…
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How China Combined Authoritarianism With Capitalism to Create A New Communism
After the 1989 fall of communism in the Soviet bloc, five self-declared communist states remain today: China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam. Belarus and Venezuela…
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Taliban Government Faces Many Challenges
From internal disputes to the quest for international recognition, the regime has its work cut out Academic research posits that the old saying “power tends to…
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The Promise of European Power
Recent internal challenges have shown, modifications to EU governance may be necessary In light of ongoing global political changes, there is much discussion in the European…
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Degrees of Separation: Why Cop26 is So Important
This year's climate summit will be the most significant since Paris in 2015, but it is far from certain how much it will deliver. It does…
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Is Xi Jinping Really Going Back to Maoism?
Some analyses have sounded the alarm of China lurching to the left in a marked return to Maoism. On closer examination, says Loro Horta, China’s recent…