Where Are The Balkans Heading Ekaterina Entina, Alexander Pivovarenko, Dejan Novaković The modern Balkans, while still firmly rooted in the periphery and the past in many ways, are a very dynamic region. Over the last 28 years, the number of states in the region has doubled. In 1991, there were five states in the Balkans:…
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/news/president-juncker-delivers-state-union-address-2017-2017-sep-13_en European Commission – Speech PRESIDENT JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER’S State of the Union Address 2017 Brussels, 13 September 2017 INTRODUCTION – WIND IN OUR SAILS Mr President, Honourable Members of the European Parliament, When I stood before you this time last year, I had a somewhat easier speech to give. It was plain for all to…
Press Communique of the BRICS Leaders’ Informal Meeting on the Margins of the G20 Hamburg Summit Date of publication：2017-07-07 Source：BRICS official website Hamburg, Germany, July 7, 2017 We, the BRICS Leaders, met on the margins of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany on 7 July 2017. We recognize that global economic growth is gathering pace, though…
‘Merkel, Putin, Orbán and Kaczynski were all shaped by the 1989 revolutions’ november 3, 2016 by: Simon Kuper, FT Magazine On November 9 1989, a 35-year-old physicist in East Berlin saw the startling news on TV that the border with West Germany was opening. But she didn’t rush to the Berlin Wall. Instead — in the…
SPRING 2016 Presidential Priority: Restore American Leadership Eliot Cohen, Eric S. Edelman and Brian Hook world affairs U.S. foreign policy today is failing every test by which a great power’s foreign policy can be judged. America is not feared by her enemies, nor trusted by her friends. Neither the American people nor the world-at-large understand any more the…
THE GOVERNANCE GAMES As happens every four years, the world is transfixed by the Summer Olympic Games. Yet even the brilliance of Usain Bolt, Simone Biles, Wayde van Niekerk, Katie Ledecky, and so many others has not obscured the dirty underside of the Olympic Movement – the self-serving governance of the International Olympic Committee. Lucy…
By George Friedman The Surprise at Brexit and the Social Crisis Behind It The pro-EU elite never imagined “leave” would win. In looking at Friday’s market decline, it is clear that the investment community was surprised at the outcome of the referendum in the U.K. What is most surprising is that they were surprised. There…
Published on: July 14, 2016 Nationalists and cosmopolitans How Samuel Huntington Predicted Our Political Moment Jason Willick In 2004, the eminent political scientist offered key insights into the nationalist-cosmopolitan divide at the heart of our society. Samuel Huntington, the professor of government at Harvard University (and member of The American Interest editorial board from…
July 24 2016, 12:01am, the Sunday Times Trump calls on the forgotten to gift him the United States of Armageddon Niall Ferguson What comedy! What a circus! Melanie Trump’s speech was ripped off from one of Michelle Obama’s. Donald Trump’s affectionate, err, grope of his daughter Ivanka was weirdly inappropriate. His air kiss of vice-presidential…
July 28, 2016 5:15 pm Why today’s politics do not mirror those of the 1930s Jacek Rostowski Countries that have suffered most economically are not electing populists, writes Jacek Rostowski ©Getty The wave of populism in the western world which has given us Brexit, and may carry Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen to power…