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Star Wars: Coming Soon to a Space Near You – The Diplomatic Alternative
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- October 3, 2019
Will Outer Space become a new frontier for international conflict? Or can it remain a global commons? As states dither, this question may soon be taken over by other actors. I confess that I gave this blog its title with a bit of tongue in cheek. While the media apparently insists on invoking this misleading
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F-35 Sales Are America’s Belt and Road
By Jonathan D. Caverley, Ethan B. Kapstein and Srdjan Vucetic While China’s Belt and Road Initiative has captured the headlines, the network of alliances based around Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II offers advanced technology and close ties to the United States Imagine a globe-spanning economic and security project—with a cost of over a trillion dollars
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History, Memory, and Politics in Post-Communist Eastern Europe
- Analysis
- September 19, 2019
The fact that East European trauma under communism is not adequately understood and appreciated in the West is the central grievance of these movements, and this feeds into new cycles of victimization In October 2017, a commemorative plaque “In Memory of the 200,000 Poles Murdered in Warsaw in the German Death Camp KL Warschau” was
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Neoliberalism’s ‘Unfailures’
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- September 16, 2019
The late 1970s and early 1980s are a moment in time that is often seen as a resounding success for neoliberal theory and practice Economic policies enacted under neoliberalism have often failed to meet their objectives, but have remained unchallenged. Why do certain policy failures have so little impact? Political economists are fascinated by crises
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