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Nine Acres in Athens: Democracy’s Rise (and Fall)

By Dan Morgan

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Brazil: The Global Benefits of Bolsonaro‘s Defeat

By Alon Ben-Meir, November 17, 2022

Bolsonaro’s election loss gives hope to climate change advocates in the battle to protect the Amazon rainforest.

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When Christian Nationalists and Conservative Muslims Unite

By James M. Dorsey, November 10, 2022

The threats to Israel’s existence as a democratic Jewish state have multiplied. They could weaken or undermine a pillar of Israeli national security – unquestioned U.S. support.

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Who is Rishi Sunak?

By Denis MacShane, October 27, 2022

Brexit will swallow its fifth Prime Minister as Sunak, the hedge fund PM, fails.

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How Europe Sidelines Itself in World Politics

By Dieter Schnaas, October 25, 2022

Reflections on leading European nations in deep domestic trouble, including a Germany that apparently can only think of itself.

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Xi Jinping’s Contradictory Choices for China’s Future

By Subbiah Lakshmanan, October 15, 2022

As China’s President enters his third term, his political preferences directly undermine the economic achievements he envisions for his country for its 2049 centennial.

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Meloni: Mussolini’s Come Back in Italy?

By Denis MacShane, September 27, 2022

Giorgia Meloni is a cynical, quick-lipped, unmarried mother who speaks French and passable English. She is many things, but she is not a female Mussolini.

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Italy: The Taming of the Populists?

By Holger Schmieding, September 22, 2022

What are the challenges for Italy?

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The End of the Second Elizabethan Era

By Kallum Pickering, September 16, 2022

Many Truss-backers within the Conservative Party may have to learn the hard way that what is really holding back the UK economy are the economic costs of Brexit.

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Liz Truss: Presiding Over Europe´s Sick Man

By Denis MacShane, September 4, 2022

Liz Truss will have to deal with problems no UK prime minister has faced since Churchill took over as the German panzers were breaking through to arrive at the French coast in June 1940.

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Understanding Gorbachev‘s True Challenge

By Daniel Yergin, September 4, 2022

My 2001 interview with Mikhail Gorbachev.

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Urbi et Gorbi (2001)

By Alexei Bayer, September 1, 2022

Why does former Soviet leader Mikhael Gorbachev not get credit for ending the Cold War?

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Germany: Solidarity with Europe or With Russia?

By Stephan Richter and Alexei Bayer, August 30, 2022

Germany’s Nazi-era history demands that Olaf Scholz and his government support the widening call to end tourism visas for Russians to vacation in EU countries.

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Democracy In America Is On The Line

By Frank Vogl, August 15, 2022

Donald Trump’s prime strategy is to undermine the U.S. system of justice – and make lots of money for himself in the process.

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Global Climate: Winter Sports in Saudi Arabia?

By James M. Dorsey, August 13, 2022

An unproven concept except for the surveillance aspect.

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Bottled Water: How Pure Is It?

By Julia Watson, August 7, 2022

Microplastics from plastic water bottles can be found everywhere -- in meat and dairy products, fish, human blood and even close to the summit of Mount Everest.

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The G20’s Economic Weight

By The Globalist on December 2, 2018

The Scale of G20 Greenhouse Gas Emissions

By The Globalist on December 2, 2018

G20: How Many Countries Really?

By The Globalist on December 1, 2018

The G20 by Population

By The Globalist on December 1, 2018

Battery Production: Low-Risk Lithium (and Nickel)

By The Globalist on November 12, 2018

Energy Extraction Politics in the Renewable Age

By The Globalist on November 12, 2018

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Ghana’s Bamboo Bicycles

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