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Foreign and security policy

How Turkey challenges Russia in the Caucasus

If Moscow has recently been punching above its real diplomatic and military weight, Ankara now poses a serious challenge

By Jaba Devdariani

Reuters

Foreign and security policy

Why the EU-Mercosur trade deal needs to be put on ice

A trade deal with Mercosur is important for the EU, but not at any price. Currently, it would be a fig leaf for Bolsonaro's recklessness

By Yasmin Fahimi

Reuters

Foreign and security policy

Russia and the West don't need each other anymore

The Navalny case is only pretext for a change in foreign policy that has been long in the making

By Fyodor Lukyanov

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Foreign and security policy

The politics of currencies

The neoliberal model of economic governance is in open dissolution. One of the main fault-lines is the politics of money

By Adam Tooze

Reuters

Foreign and security policy

The resurgence of the US paramilitary right

Right-wing paramilitary groups have a long tradition in the US. But never has the movement been so visible — and so violent

By Thomas Grumke

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Foreign and security policy

Debt relief? Thanks, but no thanks!

Developing countries have been hit particularly hard by the effects of the pandemic. So why have some rejected debt relief?

By Jürgen Kaiser, Elise Kopper

Foreign and security policy

The Eastern Mediterranean quagmire

The conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean is less about hydrocarbons than the future of the EU-Turkey relationship

By Harry Tzimitras

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Global

The coming global technology fracture

Today's international trade regime was not designed for a world of data, software and AI. It needs drastic change

By Dani Rodrik

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Europe

Countering the totalisation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict

To move beyond the Armenian-Azerbaijani impasse after July's clashes, a piecemeal approach and wider dialogue are needed

By Laurence Broers

Reuters

Latin America

When Trump robs a bank

Why Trump drives a wedge between Latin American nations to have his candidate lead the Inter-American Development Bank

By Sandra Weiss