The Xi Jinping Administration is facing significant hurdles in its bid to maintain consistent growth in the Chinese economy.
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Davis Florick September 14, 2015 Latest Articles, Security and Defence
The Xi Jinping Administration is facing significant hurdles in its bid to maintain consistent growth in the Chinese economy.
Read More »Julie Lenarz and Michael Miner September 9, 2015 Iraq and Syria, Latest Articles, Middle East and North Africa
The US and its coalition should look hard as its position in siding with an ally that fears a Kurdish State more than an Islamic one.
Read More »Darja Schildknecht September 8, 2015 Latest Articles, Security and Defence
The UN urgently needs to reform peacekeeping to restore accountability in its missions, and so to fulfil the core idea of protecting civilians.
Read More »Sarah De Geest September 4, 2015 Global Governance and Human Rights, Latest Articles
It is key to see Sino-Russian cooperation not as primarily a values-based relationship, but rather a pragmatic cooperation initiative underpinned by shared authoritarian values.
Read More »Barbara Matias September 1, 2015 Latest Articles, Middle East and North Africa
As a Middle Eastern conservative nation, womanhood in the Islamic Republic of Iran is a constant struggle, one that the government tends to, often far too literally, cover up.
Read More »Julie Lenarz August 31, 2015 Latest Articles, Middle East and North Africa, Uncategorized
There is no shortage of evidence of how in the past Western-supplied goods became tools of repression.
Read More »Davis Florick August 25, 2015 Latest Articles, Russia and Eurasia, Security and Defence
The emergence of the EEU as a counterweight to the EU, US, and China poses a direct challenge to the efforts of much of the international community since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Read More »Davis Florick August 24, 2015 Asia and Pacific, Latest Articles, Security and Defence
The relativist argument that Hun Sen’s corruption is better than King Sihanouk’s ineptitude, Lon Nol’s civil war, and Pol Pot’s genocide is no longer acceptable for people born long after these other leaders’ times in power.
Read More »Lauren Stauffer August 16, 2015 Iraq and Syria, Latest Articles, Security and Defence
By voting to create a Joint Investigative Mechanism to bring the Syrian perpetrators to justice, the UN is furthering the enforcement of the “red line” initially established by President Obama.
Read More »Rowan Allport July 29, 2015 Latest Articles, Security and Defence
There is little prospect of soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army splashing ashore along the Taiwanese coast in the immediate future. But the perceived need in Beijing to reclaim the island as part of China’s return to great power status means that the risk of conflict is likely to grow in the years ahead.
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