Foreign Policy Magazine

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Jack Devine, Potomac Books “A splendid intelligence perspective on thug Putin’s determination to get even with us for the Russian loss of the Cold War…. Only the naïve and inept will fail to heed this message.” Tom Twetten, former CIA deputy director

Newsweek

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“He was the last of the twentieth century’s titans—a man who took a quarter of humankind from the Middle Ages to the nuclear era in one great, convulsive leap,” Newsweek wrote of Chairman Mao Zedong after his death at age 82. “No one knows for sure w

Foreign Policy Magazine

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FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WINTER, a Harvard professor named Samuel P. Huntington and a wealthy diplomat and investment banker named Warren Demian Manshel decided to start a new journal. The United States, they worried, was on the brink of a crisis—a whole

India Today

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On the FATF (Financial Action Task Force) grey list for failure to do enough to curb terror funding; has sustained losses worth $38 billion (Rs 2.77 lakh crore) since 2008 Economy in the doldrums, dealing with a debt crisis and rising inflation. Exte

The Big Issue

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The balance of power in Europe has been a vexing subject for more than 300 years. But recent world powers – eg the US – have forgotten such a preoccupation. Now along comes a militarily revitalised Russia, looking more like its post-Second World War

The Critic Magazine

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THE REPUTATION OF Sir Edward Grey, the Liberal foreign secretary at the time of the outbreak of the Great War, has suffered greatly in recent years. Matthew Parris has called him “a bloody awful foreign secretary”, Andrew Adonis thinks him “arguably

Guardian Weekly

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Rishi Sunak renewed a promise to stop people being smuggled across the Channel, despite coming away from talks with Emmanuel Macron without any firm commitments. The prime minister promised details about the progress of cross-Channel talks “in the co

NPR

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Today, as Ukraine defends itself against military forces from Russia, Albright's journey is especially important.

Columbia Journalism Review

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A few years ago I was reporting in Mexico, traveling from shelter to shelter along the United States border. In a refuge in central Tijuana, a group of children played on a dusty concrete porch. The shelter, built for asylum seekers coming from the s

Foreign Policy Magazine

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As the global landscape becomes more complex and interconnected than ever before, the need for collaboration, inclusion, and unity has never been greater. This FP Guide introduces some of graduate education’s most respected leaders. These professors,

Guardian Weekly

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To publicly accuse a long-time friend and ally of lacking credibility and breaking his word whenever its suits him is disobliging at the best of times. To do so on the eve of a watershed global summit, Cop26, which your “friend” is hosting and where

India Today

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IF US president Donald Trump believes he owes his success to always thinking big, Prime Minister Narendra Modi does it by thinking even bigger. When Trump, who represents the world’s most powerful democracy, and Modi, who heads its most populous one,

Shooting Gazette

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Twenty-twenty struggled to its close bringing bad news and good news. Bad, in that the turning of the year brought less traditional joie de vivre, over-indulgence, fireworks and men in skirts firstfooting as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to bring m

The Critic Magazine

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AFTER THE PEOPLE HAD SPOKEN, much of the opposition to Brexit was process-based. This opposition could take legal form — thus the Supreme Court deciding it knew when Parliament was prorogued or not. But mostly it was rhetorical and moral: the wrong t

Foreign Policy Magazine

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Although successive editors have reiterated FOREIGN POLICY’s commitment—stated in its first issue—to publish writers at all points on the political spectrum, it is symptomatic of a larger national insecurity that the magazine has at times been under

Weekend Argus Saturday

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TURKISH consul-general Sinan Yeilda hosted an exclusive Eid celebration at his private residence in Constantia, in an effort to bring the Turkish community in the province together in reverence to this important day. The Turkish Embassy has roughly 5

Guardian Weekly

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This is the kind of novel that mocks the give-it-10-pages, I-need-to-begrabbed-because-life-is-too-short school of reading. I confess: I was confused, bewildered, lost. The shape of the narrative only really began to declare itself around page 90. Bu

Farmer's Weekly

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Lobsters appear to be the latest victims of escalating trade tensions between Australia and China. According to Australian Associated Press (AAP), tons of live Australian rock lobsters were left on the tarmac at a Chinese airport recently due to dela

MoneyWeek

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At the time of writing, the ongoing trade negotiations between the UK and Australia seemed to have reached a critical point. Boris Johnson is supportive in principle, but Australia was threatening to walk away from talks unless granted greater access

The Atlantic

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On October 9, 1983, a large delegation of senior South Korean government officials assembled at a mausoleum across the street from Burma’s gleaming Shwedagon Pagoda, located in what was then the city of Rangoon. They were in Burma for a state visit,

ArtAsiaPacific

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What is the legacy of 20th-century utopian aspirations today? The dream of perfectly planned cities has obsessed governments since the postwar era and lives on in today’s neoliberal visions of tax-free, “green” cities and freeports—infrastructural sp

Post South Africa

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THE letter, “Other ways to express outrage” (POST, November 11-15) refers. Although the world was horrified by the beheading of a teacher in France, there have been some amusing fallouts as well. On October 28, many international publications highlig

This Week in Asia

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A group of Indonesian rights advocates, including a former attorney general, are petitioning for Indonesia's constitutional court to amend the country's human rights law so legal action can be taken against the Myanmar junta. The move, if successful,

This Week in Asia

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been "humiliated" by the assassination of one of Iran's top military leaders " effectively ending Tokyo's efforts to mediate between Tehran and Washington " but has little choice but to go ahead with the schedul

Beijing Review

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The first plenary meeting of the 75th Session of the UN General Assembly opens for the UN headquarters in New York City on September 15 People run past the Empty Sky memorial at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, on September 11, commemor

This Week in Asia

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Observers say these are among the key reasons why Singapore, entrusted with hosting Tuesday's summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, is well on its way to becoming "Asia's Geneva". The Lion City this week signal

New Zealand Listener

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Beat! beat! drums! – blow! bugles! blow! Through the windows – through doors – burst like a ruthless force, Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation, Into the school where the scholar is studying, − Walt Whitman, 1861. Walt Whitman, Ameri

Beijing Review

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First, we need to step up anti-epidemic cooperation and build a community of health for us all. Right now, COVID-19 is still presenting an ongoing threat. To fight the virus that respects no borders, we must take up the most powerful weapon of solida

The Christian Science Monitor

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Over the past quarter century, Africa’s leaders have steadily erected standards to better manage their own affairs. These are meant to strengthen the rule of law through fair elections, safeguard human rights, and promote prosperity through economic

The Christian Science Monitor

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The assassination of the country’s president adds to an impression of troubled places inherently unstable. Yet peacemakers have learned that self-governance can exist in the most chaotic nations.