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Prologue: When visiting Bahrain recently, we visited the Portuguese fort. Naturally, when I returned to the…
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Immediately before departing for the G20 summit in Japan, Vladimir Putin gave a revealing interview to…
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We last wrote about Bahrain in 2011. In that piece, Richard Weitz focused on the role…
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São Paulo saw two faces of the “New” Brazil this past week. On Thursday, June 20th,…
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Paris – France last year won foreign orders for weapons worth a total €9.1 billion ($10.2…
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New Delhi. The multipolar reality of the global environment is becoming increasingly visible in Asia where…
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Great tragedies can befall nations when illegitimate leaders fight to hang on to power. There is…
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Although Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump continue to exchange warm letters of mutual…
Read More »The Captain and the General: Bolsonaro’s Brazil
The opera continues in Brasilia. At least this is how one of the most informative and…
Read More »China’s Role in the India–Pakistan Nuclear Dynamic
The danger of a nuclear war, with catastrophic consequences for life as we know it, may…
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