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Toppling Lenin: The lessons of Ukraine’s memory wars
The Black Lives Matter movement has led to a wave of monument removals across Europe and North America in recent weeks as people reflect on the appropriateness of the historic figures enjoying pride...
View ArticleManning in The National Interest: Coronavirus Meets Donald Trump’s...
Original Source The post Manning in The National Interest: Coronavirus Meets Donald Trump’s Wonderland: What the Facemask Wars Reveal appeared first on Atlantic Council.
View ArticleChhibber in the Economic Times: The virus has seriously exposed the limits of...
Original SOurce The post Chhibber in the Economic Times: The virus has seriously exposed the limits of populism. But will the pandemic push it against the wall? appeared first on Atlantic Council.
View ArticleGerman politics heats up
German political dynamics have made an early and perhaps unexpected change this summer, coming out of the “Sommerloch,” with two new announcements from the Social Democratic Party. First, the SPD...
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Ashford in the New York Times: Biden wants to return to a ‘normal’ foreign...
original source Emma Ashford writes about way forward for US leadership in the world. Even under a Biden administration, the US can not approach foreign policy as it once did. More about our expert...
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The case for sanctioning Ukraine’s anti-Western MPs
In early September 2020, the United States imposed sanctions against Ukrainian MP Andriy Derkach, who was identified as “a Russian agent for more than a decade who coordinates his activities closely...
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Kremlin memory wars and the search for a unifying Ukrainian national identity
I have always been suspicious of sweeping historical narratives that attempt to explain the complex events of the past in simple black and white terms. They remind me of the sanitized histories taught...
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Ukraine will never reform until oligarchs lose power
A winter of discontent is looming in Ukraine. After six years of imperfect progress following the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, the political climate in the country has changed dramatically. In recent...
View ArticleVarshney joins Tata Literature Live to discuss Big Bosses: The future of...
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View ArticleManning quoted in The Straits Times: RCEP signing a wake-up call for the US
original source On November 23, 2020, Robert Manning was quoted several times in The Straits Times. A lot of people in the US feel the benefits of its global role have not lived up to the costs. And...
View ArticleNooruddin in The Hindu: Pulling India’s democracy back from the brink
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The urgent task before the US and EU: To craft democracy that ‘delivers’
The challenges of economic upheaval and threats posed by China and Russia, common to both the European Union (EU) and the United States, are increasing the urgency on both sides of the Atlantic of...
View ArticleD’Anieri in The National Interest: Kyrgyzstan’s Japarov emulates Putin’s...
Original Source The post D’Anieri in The National Interest: Kyrgyzstan’s Japarov emulates Putin’s authoritarian model appeared first on Atlantic Council.
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The gathering threat to the US in Kyrgyzstan
When Netflix and Amazon seek out a plot for the next big political thriller, they should look no further than Kyrgyzstan. The circumstances under which Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov came to power are...
View ArticleNooruddin quoted in Wall Street Journal on how Covid-19 has punctured...
Original source The post Nooruddin quoted in Wall Street Journal on how Covid-19 has punctured Narendra Modi’s aura appeared first on Atlantic Council.
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#BritainDebrief – Britain vs. disinformation: A crisis or an exaggeration? A...
Britain vs. disinformation: A crisis or an exaggeration? From vaccines and Brexit to foreign ops, the subject of disinformation and how to handle it is constantly invoked in the UK debate. But how...
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#BritainDebrief – A foreign correspondent’s view: Is British democracy at...
A foreign correspondent’s view: Is British democracy at risk? In the first of a new series interviewing foreign correspondents based in Britain on their views on the country’s predicament, Europe...
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#BritainDebrief – A foreign correspondent’s view: US culture war in Britain?...
Have American culture wars come to Britain? For the second in a series for #BritainDebrief asking foreign correspondents based in the UK about the country’s predicament, Europe Center senior fellow...
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Ukraine’s anti-oligarch law could make President Zelenskyy too powerful
Anyone anticipating that the anti-oligarch bill recently signed into law by President Zelenskyy marks a new beginning for Ukraine will have had their hopes dampened last week when the National Council...
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Ukraine’s Anti-Oligarch Law: President Zelenskyy’s populist power grab?
The anti-oligarch law recently signed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is being trumpeted by his supporters as a landmark step in the struggle to reduce the political influence of Ukraine’s...
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Counting the costs of technonationalism and the balkanization of cyberspace
This page is only an excerpt of a technology foresight report in order to give readers an introduction to the topic and the opportunity to browse through alternative futures. To access all content,...
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Europe in a bipolar tech world
This page is only an excerpt of a technology foresight report in order to give readers an introduction to the topic and the opportunity to browse through alternative futures. To access all content,...
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Postpandemic letdown and western disarray
This page is only an excerpt of a technology foresight report in order to give readers an introduction to the topic and the opportunity to browse through alternative futures. To access all content,...
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Unpacking the geopolitics of technology
Download full Report How second- and third-order implications of emerging tech are changing the world Developing new technologies used to be primarily an economic and commercial issue, but it is...
View ArticleThe American torch of democracy is flickering
One year after the attempted putsch of January 6, American democracy remains in peril. As it turns out, Americans are neither anointed for easy greatness nor immune to the ills and sins to which...
View ArticleDagres’ Atlantic Council report on Iranian social media mentioned in...
original source The post Dagres’ Atlantic Council report on Iranian social media mentioned in Politico’s Morning Tech newsletter appeared first on Atlantic Council.
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With Putin poised to invade, Zelenskyy must prioritize Ukrainian unity
For the past three months, Ukraine has been in the global spotlight amid mounting fears that Vladimir Putin is preparing to launch a dramatic escalation in his eight-year undeclared war against the...
View ArticleAsat joins PBS to discuss Uyghur human rights amidst China’s Beijing Olympics
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As no-confidence vote looms, Pakistan’s democracy faces key stress test
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan faces a no-confidence motion in the country’s National Assembly (the lower house of its Parliament). The motion, which is expected to be tabled on March 25, 2022,...
View ArticleHow will Russia’s war in Ukraine reshape the European political scene? Look...
State-against-state warfare is back on the European continent. Governments—including those once considered neutral or risk-averse—have made decisions that had been unthinkable just weeks before:...
View ArticleExperts react: A new leader emerges from Pakistan’s political turmoil. Now what?
There’s a new bowler in town. Pakistan’s parliament removed cricket star-turned-populist Prime Minister Imran Khan from power on Sunday and, a day later, installed opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif,...
View ArticleNia joins the Associated Press to discuss the classification of crimes in...
original source The post Nia joins the Associated Press to discuss the classification of crimes in Ukraine as a ‘genocide’ appeared first on Atlantic Council.
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#BritainDebrief – What’s at stake in France’s Presidential Election? | A...
What’s at stake in France’s Presidential Election? As French President Emmanuel Macron maintains a lead ahead of his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen, Senior Fellow Ben Judah interviews Ambassador...
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Vladimir Putin’s WWII victory cult is a recipe for international aggression
Military parades will take place across Russia on May 9 as the country honors the defeat of Nazi Germany with traditional Victory Day celebrations. This holiday dates back to the end of WWII but it...
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Kazakhstan cancels Victory Day in protest over Putin’s Ukraine War
With Russia currently waging war in Ukraine, traditional Victory Day events on May 9 took on added symbolic significance. This holiday marking the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany has become central...
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#BritainDebrief – Bye Boris Special: Now what? | A Debrief from Tom McTague
As Boris Johnson announces his resignation from the premiership, the question on everyone’s mind is: now what? To get to the potential outcomes of Johnson’s departure from No 10, Senior Fellow Ben...
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#BritainDebrief – What does the Tory leadership contest say about race in...
What does the Tory leadership contest say about race in Britain? The candidacies of Rishi Sunak, Sajid Javid, Suella Braverman, and Kemi Badenoch for the leadership of the UK Conservative Party (and...
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#BritainDebrief – What future for the Scottish Lib Dems? | A Debrief with...
What future for the Scottish Lib Dems? As Nicola Sturgeon recently declared her intention to hold a second independence referendum without Westminster’s consent, Senior Fellow Ben Judah spoke with...
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#BritainDebrief – What are the origins of Europe’s energy crisis? | A Debrief...
What are the origins of Europe’s energy crisis? As concerns continue to grow over Europe’s capacity to endure a winter with less Russian natural gas, Senior Fellow Ben Judah spoke with Dr. Helen...
View ArticleCould Italy become Europe’s newest problem child?
On September 25, Italian voters will elect a slimmed-down parliament in what polls predict will be a triumph for the conservative coalition led by Giorgia Meloni’s far-right Brothers of Italy party,...
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#AtlanticDebrief – Will Jean Monnet’s vision for Europe win out? | A Debrief...
IN THIS EPISODE What is the current scene in Europe on the struggle between European integration and Euroscepticism? What do Italy and Sweden’s elections mean for European unity and cooperation,...
View ArticleWhich Giorgia Meloni will Washington get?
Long a controversial figure both at home and abroad over her party’s direct lineage from Italy’s neo-fascist movement, Giorgia Meloni is now expected to become the country’s newest prime minister...
View ArticleAs Brazil investigates Bolsonaro’s role in anti-democratic riots, should the...
Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro was more than three thousand miles away in Florida when his supporters rioted in Brazil’s capital on January 8, a week after his rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da...
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How the women and girls of Iran have fueled their ‘unprecedented’ protests:...
Watch the event Public Event Thu, May 11, 2023 • 11:00 am ET Woman, Life, Freedom: Eight months of ongoing protests in Iran AN #ACFRONTPAGE EVENT – An in-depth conversation examining the ongoing...
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Wagner putsch is symptomatic of Russia’s ongoing imperial decline
The attempted putsch by Yevgeniy Prigozhin and his Wagner troops in late June is perhaps best understood as a symptom of Russia’s ongoing imperial decline. Much like the invasion of Ukraine itself, it...
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#AtlanticDebrief – What’s the outcome of Spain’s snap election? | A Debrief...
IN THIS EPISODE What do the results of Spain’s snap election mean for Spanish politics and Spain’s EU Council presidency? What explains the performance of Spain’s main political parties and the...
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#AtlanticDebrief – Where is Europe headed politically? | A Debrief from Jon...
IN THIS EPISODE To what extent are we witnessing the rise of the far-right in Europe? What is driving European voters to support far-right candidates? As we gear up for the European Parliament...
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#AtlanticDebrief – What’s the link between politics & identity in Europe? | A...
IN THIS EPISODE What’s the best way to think about European identity and the EU? How do concepts of civic and ethnic nationalism play out in Europe today? As far-right parties increasingly reject...
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Russian imperialism shapes public support for the war against Ukraine
When the bombs first began falling on Kyiv in February 2022, I thought the Russian people would immediately recognize the senselessness of it all and rise up to stop the war. After all, for more than...
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Vladimir Putin’s history obsession is a threat to world peace
History has always served as an ideological battlefield, but few rulers in the modern era have weaponized the past quite as ruthlessly as Vladimir Putin. For more than two years, the Russian dictator...
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