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Key Drivers in US-North Korea relations
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- November 7, 2019
North Korean and US relations have oscillated between hostility and limited detente for decades. This has only grown more intense in recent years. What are the underlying drivers in US-North Korean relations in the age of Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un? Foralmost seven decades since the Korean War, North Korea has maintained a tenuousrelationship with
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A Beginner’s Guide to Economic Ignorance
Ignorance is not the antithesis to knowledge, but it is part of it. Wishful thinking, muddling through and other forms of ignorance play a crucial role in shaping economic policy and its effects on society. We hear a lot about the power of economic expertise—whether it’s the news media calling on the latest expert to
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Autocrats Use Feminism to Undermine Democracy
- Analysis
- October 30, 2019
More women are being elected in autocratic regimes, but this is part of a democratic facade. The definition of democracy needs to change. Fake news, disinformation, foreign influence in elections: We’re starting to understand the ways bad actors attack democracy in Canada and around the world. But autocrats and other enemies of democracy also use
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Issues in Repairing U.S.-Russian Strategic Relations
- Analysis
- October 24, 2019
Similar to during the Cold War, the US and Russia are once again nuclear peer competitors. However, the emergence of a range of new nuclear actors hamper traditional understandings and represent a new – more complex – era in nuclear international relations. It is no surprise that post-Soviet relations between the United States and Russia
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