
Since the beginning of this century, the governments of the five Anglosphere countries, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US), have steadily deepened their domestic policy collaboration. Using exclusive and insular transgovernmental networks made up of the most senior levels of decision-making – usually self-titled as a ‘Five countries
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The ejection of Taiwan’s Chinese Wild Bird Federation (CWBF) from BirdLife International and the subsequent gag order asking BirdLife employees to refrain from speaking to the press may appear at first glance to be the smallest of China’s many micro-aggressions, but is indicative of a serious security threat. BirdLife notified the CWBF on September 7 that their 24-year-old partnership
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Holding to account those individuals responsible for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi is also a matter of state responsibility. There are two options. Based on the place of the murder, KSA could and should cooperate with Turkey in the investigation and eventual criminal prosecution of those individuals in Turkey, under Turkish law. No diplomatic immunities
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The term Five Eyes typically refers to a unique signals intelligence pooling club of three or four-letter acronymed agencies from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. But FVEY, as it is also known, is now also attached to a large and growing number of “special relationships” and transgovernmental policy networks
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