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What Does the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Mean for Venezuela?

Moises Rendon and Claudia Fernandez, Center for Strategic and International Studies | R2P is already at play in the case of Venezuela and...

What could a good green recovery plan actually look like?

Fiona Harvey, Gaurdian| While some countries – notably the EU, and especially member states France and Germany – have emphasised a push...

Can Europe Recover Its Youth?

Elisabeth Von Hammerstein, Claudia Gamon &Yana Ehm, Project Syndicate| Many young Europeans today are disappointed and frustrated by the...

Govt mulls easing rules for border nation FDI

Yogima Seth Sharma & Deepshikha Sikarwar, Economic Times | After regulating foreign direct investment and abandoning the Regional...

Vaccine Diplomacy is the New Space Race

Hal Brands , AEI | The space race was the ultimate symbol of Cold War technological competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union....

China’s Humanitarian Aid: Cooperation amidst Competition

Jacob Kurtzer, Center for Strategic and International Studies | In response to the spread of Covid-19, China has deployed medical teams...

Has Covid changed ESG investing?

Aamina Zafar, Financial Times | Terence Moll argued that technology, regulation and client demand will continue to drive investors’...

Iran To Sign Military Cooperation Deal With Iraq

Tasnim News Agency, Eurasia Review | Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri unveiled plans for...

To combat climate change and nature loss, multilateralism is key: Nordic countries

Modern Diplomacy | The 2020 consultations between the five Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden – and the...

Japanese technology to Fight Covid-19 in Asia and Africa

Newsroom, Moderndiplomacy | Japanese technology and products will help countries in Africa and Asia limit the impact of the COVID-19...

Students bridging diplomatic divide through videogames

Max Rivlin-Nadler, KPBS | Salaam, a video game that's meant to encourage empathy and help refugees. Its developer, 25-year-old Lual...

There’s no need for panic over China’s trade threats

James Laurenceson, The Conversation| With China’s purchasing power over the next decade forecast to grow more than that of the US, Japan,...

Asia-Pacific Nations Set to Sign Massive Regional Trade Deal

Sebastian Strangio, The Diplomat | The creation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership will leave the U.S. sitting on the...

Xi Champions Multilateralism at SCO Amid COVID Concerns and Sino-Indian Tensions

Eleanor Albert, The Diplomat | The regional grouping gathered virtually against the backdrop of the ongoing spread of the coronavirus and...

Europe Can’t Blame Donald Trump Anymore

Tom Mctague, The Atlantic | With Joe Biden soon to take over the White House, Europe has lost its unifying bogeyman. The question for the...

Azerbaijan’s drones owned the battlefield in Nagorno-Karabakh — and showed future of warfare

Robyn Dixon, The Washington Post | The expanding array of relatively low-cost drones can offer countries air power at a fraction of the...

Ceasefire in the Caucasus opens door to rebalancing of regional power

James M. Dorsey, Modern Diplomacy | Spontaneous mass protests against the terms of the ceasefire and the government’s conduct of the war...

India, Saudi Arabia and the Riyal 20: The Intent and the Repercussions

Harish K. Thakur, Modern Diplomacy | Saudi Arabia has quite recently released a 20 Riyal banknote to commemorate its presidency of...

East Africa Has Yet to Tap Its Full Maritime Potential

Ahmed Hersi and Roba D. Sharamo, All Africa | By not managing and using shared maritime resources, East African states are missing an...

Why Beijing Hasn’t Called Biden

James Palmer, Foreign Policy | Just as some Americans are convinced that the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party is around the...