Matching EU values and interests: a smart geostrategy for the Eastern...
This month’s Vilnius summit is fueling a fierce competition between Europe and Russia, the likes of which haven’t been seen since the ebbing days of the Cold War. Amid that competition, there is a...
View ArticleA “transatlantic renaissance” would advance democracy around the world, says...
A senior Obama administration official has called for a “transatlantic renaissance,” with the U.S. and European Union drawing on “a new burst of energy, confidence, innovation, and generosity, rooted...
View ArticleThe Anglosphere, democracy and the most important geopolitical question of...
Perhaps the most important geopolitical question of the 21st century is this: Will India define itself primarily as a member of the Anglosphere or as an Asian power? “We often use the word ‘Western’ as...
View ArticleVenezuela’s authoritarian tendencies: Maduro jails 100 businessmen in...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has jailed 100 ‘bourgeois’ businessmen on grounds of alleged economic sabotage. But the man deemed public enemy No. 1 in the regime’s “economic war” blames its...
View ArticleRussia’s backward march on human rights
Prominent legal cases and detainees such as the Greenpeace activists, the Pussy Riot punk singers, the former Yukos oil company managers, highlight the lack of fair trials and poor prison conditions...
View ArticleVenezuela’s Congress approves decree powers for Maduro in ‘populist’ power-grab
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday secured emergency powers to rule by decree for the next year. The so-called special powers permit Mr. Maduro, a socialist, to make laws aimed at...
View ArticleRule of the gun: ‘time to free Libya from the liberators’
Western powers are in danger of underestimating the regional effects of Libya‘s political instability, according to Hugh Robertson, the British Foreign Office minister responsible for the Middle East...
View ArticleUkraine crucial to Putin’s Eurasian ‘plan to restore Russia’s greatness’
Over a hundred thousand demonstrators from all over Ukraine have gathered in Kyiv’s appropriately named ‘European Square’ to protest against the government’s retreat from a planned accession agreement...
View ArticleUkraine protesters call for General Strike as Yanukovich heads to China
Ukrainian protesters blockaded the main government building on Monday, seeking to force President Viktor Yanukovich from office with a general strike after hundreds of thousands demonstrated against...
View ArticleUkraine’s Visions of the Future
Once more there are hundreds of thousands of people in the streets, the National Endowment for Democracy’s Nadia Diuk writes from Kyiv. Estimates suggest that on Sunday December 1, it was the largest...
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