Category: Belt and Road Initiative
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Deciphering the web of US sanctions on Syria
When Bashar al-Assad’s government brutally cracked down on protesters in 2011, former President Barack Obama wanted to ramp up sanctions but faced a dilemma. Syria was already so heavily sanctioned that few cords connecting it to the global financial system were left to cut. “We’re talking about a country whose economy is about the size…
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Image principale A New Japan-France Strategic Partnership: A View from Paris Date de publication 16 November 2018 Accroche On the occasion of the conference held on the 22 November 2018 marking the 160th anniversary of Franco-Japanese diplomatic relations, Ifri publishes two parallel articles offering French and Japanese perspectives on the bilateral security partnership. Michito Tsuruoka’s…
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The Rise and Fall of Economic Statecraft
When Donald Trump returns to the White House in late January, he’ll hold the levers of U.S. economic power. The ubiquity of the dollar as a currency of exchange, coupled with the centrality of U.S. financial institutions and networks, gives Washington an unparalleled ability to make it hard for adversaries to do business. Since 9/11,…
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Pakistan Faces Resurgance of Terrorism
Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Terrorism Roars Back in Pakistan, 10 Years After a Campaign to End It Political instability, dwindling public support and economic constraints are eroding the costly gains that the country made in combating militancy after a school attack in 2014. Shagufta Tahir, the mother of Muhammad Shaheer Khan, one of the students killed…
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What the fall of the Assad regime really means for China
MENASource December 18, 2024 • 4:57 pm ET Jonathan Fulton If you’ve been closely following China in the Middle East over the past decade, you haven’t had to think too much about Syria. There has been little in meaningful engagement between the two countries, despite recent pronouncements that the fall of former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s…
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The world in 2025: ten issues that will shape the international agenda
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Text finalised on December 15th, 2024. This Nota Internacional is the result of collective reflection on the part of the CIDOB research team. Coordinated and edited by Carme Colomina, with contributions from Inés Arco, Anna Ayuso, Jordi Bacaria, Pol Bargués, Javier Borràs, Víctor Burguete, Anna Busquets, Daniel Castilla, Carmen Claudín, Patrizia Cogo, Francesc Fàbregues, Oriol Farrés, Marta Galceran,…
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Mitch McConnell: The Price of American Retreat
When he begins his second term as president, Donald Trump will inherit a world far more hostile to U.S. interests than the one he left behind four years ago. China has intensified its efforts to expand its military, political, and economic influence worldwide. Russia is fighting a brutal and unjustified war in Ukraine. Iran remains…
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Iran’s territorial integrity: A strategic imperative for regional and global stability – opinion
For the US and its allies, preserving Iran’s territorial integrity is not only a strategic necessity but also an investment in long-term regional stability. By AIDIN PANAHI DECEMBER 15, 2024 01:08 ISLAMIC REPUBLIC leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with members of Iran’s Basij militia in Tehran, Iran, earlier this week. (photo credit:…
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Public Opinion Under Pressure
The relevance of public opinion in the Middle East and North Africa is a question often debated but little understood. Given the high prevalence of autocracy, surveys of popular sentiment are limited, while freedoms of speech and press are not the norm. Indeed, as thousands of political prisoners freed in recent days from the Sednaya…
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No Limits? The China-Russia Relationship and U.S. Foreign Policy
The growing quasi-alliance between China and Russia poses the greatest threat to vital U.S. national interests in sixty years. As this Council Special Report demonstrates, their joint efforts to undermine U.S. policies and international order have made marked progress in the past decade and will continue for the foreseeable future. Although the United States and…