Le Japon et les dangers du rééquilibrage américain en Asie
TOKYO – Comme on pouvait s’y attendre, y voyant un hommage à ceux qui étaient derrière “la guerre d’agression contre la Chine”, les dirigeants chinois ont condamné la visite le mois dernier du Premier...
View ArticleLe coup d’état bureaucratique de la Turquie
ANKARA – La semaine dernière, le Premier ministre turc Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a intensifié la réponse de son gouvernement aux enquêtes de corruption qui secouent le pays depuis décembre en restructurant...
View ArticleLe mythe de l’isolationnisme américain
CAMBRIDGE – Les Etats-Unis se replient-ils sur eux-mêmes, séduits par l’isolationnisme ? Cette question m’a été posée à maintes reprises par des personnalités politiques et du monde de la finance lors...
View ArticleResponsabilité sans frontière
CAMBRIDGE – La guerre civile en Syrie aurait fait plus de 130 000 morts. Les rapports de l’ONU faisant état d’atrocités, les images de violence contre des civils sur Internet et les reportages qui...
View ArticlePresident Tsai: Respect the Will of the People and Accept the ‘1992 Consensus’
This article was originally published by Pacific Forum CSIS on 19 January 2017. Roughly one year has passed since Tsai Ing-wen, presidential candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), a party...
View ArticleTrump’s Troubling Bilateralism
This article was originally published by Carnegie Europe on 20 January 2017. Supporters of the EU should be troubled by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s remarks in a joint interview with the Times...
View ArticleThe Politics of Legality and UN Resolution 2334
This article was originally published by the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) on 18 January 2017. Synopsis UN Resolution 2334 condemning Israeli settlements was passed by the...
View ArticleRelax, NATO Isn’t Going Anywhere
This article was originally published by Political Violence @ a Glance on 16 January 2017. Donald Trump’s election caused consternation at home and abroad. Outside of the United States, perhaps nowhere...
View ArticleThe Consequences of Politicized Forces in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
This article was originally published by openDemocracy on 19 January 2017. The politicization of the Kurdish military and security forces has a diverse and severe impact on human security, and...
View ArticleThe New Arab–Israeli Alliance
This article was originally published by World Affairs on 20 January 2017. During the early years of the Obama administration, conventional wisdom in Washington held that the Israeli–Palestinian...
View ArticleAfrica’s Pastoralists: A New Battleground for Terrorism
This article was originally published by the African Center for Strategic Studies on 11 January 2017. In January 2013, Hamadou Kouffa led Islamist forces from northern Mali south toward Konna and...
View ArticleMediation Perspectives: Using Religious Resources to Teach Negotiation and...
Mediation Perspectives is a periodic blog entry that’s provided by the CSS’ Mediation Support Team and occasional guest authors. Each entry is designed to highlight the utility of mediation approaches...
View ArticleJust Because We Look Away, The War in Afghanistan is Not Over
This article was originally published by the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) on 13 January 2017. Recent developments herald a troubled year for the Afghans During 2015 and 2016, the...
View ArticleCyprus’s Elusive Reunification: So Near to a Solution, Yet so Far
This article was originally published by the Elcano Royal Institute on 19 January 2017. Summary The reunification of Cyprus is one of the world’s longest running and intractable international problems....
View ArticleThe Border Wall: Making Mexican Drug Cartels Great Again
This article was originally published by War on the Rocks on 2 February 2017. After a campaign of “sending rapists,” “deportation force,” “whip out that Mexican thing again,” and “bad hombres,” the...
View ArticleDonald Trump and the Emergent Dominant Narrative in US Foreign Policy
This article was originally published by E-International Relations on 4 February 2017. It is difficult to find experts that approve of President Donald Trump’s emergent foreign policy. Neoconservatives...
View ArticleHow the Exclusion of Muslims Could Help Extremists
This article was originally published by IPI Global Observatory on 3 February 2017. Within two weeks of taking power, new United States President Donald Trump has signed a number of executive orders...
View ArticleLiving Off the Land: Food and the Logic of Violence in Civil War
This article was originally published by Political Violence @ a Glance on 6 February 2017. Does food security increase the frequency of civilian killings in some developing countries? Or can it make...
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