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Turkey’s democratization dilemmas
Jan Peter Balkenende, former Dutch Prime Minister and President in office of the Council, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish Prime Minister, and Abdullah Gül, President of Turkey (then Foreign Minister) in...
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Amnesty laws in Spain and Brazil. Double standards and a judge without friends
Judge Baltazar Garzón visits Centro Clandestino de Detención ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2005. Copyright presidencia.gov.ar Brazil and Spain are two countries that share a curiously similar dilemma...
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The blue-print of the future NATO Strategic Concept: Some comments and views
NATO has released last week a report containing the outline of the future NATO Strategic Concept that will be adopted at the Alliance summit this year in Lisbon. Although this is not even a draft of...
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The blue-print of the future NATO strategic concept: future missions and...
I continue the presentation and analysis of the experts’ report on the future NATO strategic concept, an endeavor which I have began in May, with the section dedicated to the future missions and...
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NATO’s developments
In my opinion, one of the most interesting developments in the international politics scenario will be a massive change in the role, the identity and the purposes of NATO. Moreover, as the need for a...
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Honoring the Mindset of A Generation: In Memory of Ronald Asmus
Richard C. Hollbrooke (1941-2010) și Ronald D. Asmus (1957-2011) Ronald Asmus was definitely, as Ivan Krastev highlighted in an article for opendemocracy.com, part of a generation “that emerged on the...
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Strategic Thinking and Foreign Policy in the European Union
Catherine Ashton visiting war-thorn Benghazi What EUrope is today increasingly depends on where one sits and assesses the situation. I’m afraid this is quite a prosaic thing to say; an American will...
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Ronald Asmus: The Little War that Shook the World
Ronald Asmus (1957-2011) In March 2010 I interviewed the late Ronald Asmus about his last book published in 2010, A Little War that Shook the World: Georgia, Russia and the future of the West. The book...
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In Central Asia, It Is Better to Speak of Confrontation than of War
On December 28th, 2012, Arielle Thedrel published in the French newspaper Le Figaro an article entitled Une Guerre de l’Eau Menace l’Asie Centrale, alluding to the uneasy situation of water-management...
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De week-end: To The Right Honourable David Cameron, His Excellency Martin Harris
Dear Mr Cameron, Dear Mr Harris, Rumours have it that your government plans to run a series of ads discouraging Romanian (and Bulgarian) nationals from going to UK. While some fellow Romanians are...
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