Austerity has turned a once classical foreign service into travelling salesmen
Portugalâs centre-right coalition government,...
GB discusses wealth creation, the state of the Americas, and lessons for the states of the post-Arab Spring with Peruâs...
Tags: Bolivia, Brazil, Cairo, Chile, Colombia, Global Brief, Hernando de Soto, Institute for Liberty and Democracy, Latin America, Lima, Mohamed Bouazizi, Peru, Venezuela
Proposition: Africa should welcome China
Richard Rousseau (contre): Au-delĂ de lâargumentaire des partisans et des dĂ©tracteurs...
Tags: China's role in Africa, Chinese investment in Africa, Chinese-African relations, des gouvernements kleptocrates, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Global Brief, la gĂ©opolitique de lâEurasie, realpolitik, Richard Rousseau, une puissance nĂ©ocoloniale, Wenran Jiang
Il faut admettre une fois pour toutes que lâUE sâest construite contre lâidĂ©e de puissance
Il y a 10 ans, lâUE,...
Tags: Global Brief, grande stratégie, l'ONU, l'UE, la philosophie européenne, la prolifération nucléaire, les déséquilibres économiques, Sciences Po, Solana, Stratégie européenne de sécurité, Zaki Laïdi
Itâs not as bad as it looks, considering the starting point and the enemy at the gate. The game can only be long.
The...
Tags: Global Brief, Juba, Khartoum, Matthew Arnold, Matthew LeRiche, Republic of the Sudan, Salva Kiir, South Sudan, South Sudan independence, South Sudan People's Liberation Movement, Sudan Peopleâs Liberation Army-North
Edging toward the sweet spot of new-century governance
Enter the info-state. The info-state â today one of a growing number...
What East can teach West, and vice versa, as âvoyeurâ states take notes
Who, as between Reagan and Gorbachev, won the...
Tags: civilization, Cold War, East Asia, Eastern civilization, Global Brief, Irvin Studin, Kishore Mahbubani, Lee Kuan Yew, pivot to Asia, rise of China, thick democracy, transitional world, West Asia, Western civilization
Between identity and difference, the impulse for identity has proven more destructive
Two principles rule in human affairs:...
Calestous Juma
âŠwill be on a new path toward economic renewal, having endured decades of war and centuries of instability....
Tags: Africa, African Union, AU, Calestous Juma, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC, economic growth, Enough Project, Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation, Global Brief, good governance, Gwendolyn Mikell, John C. Bradshaw, Kinshasa
Mariama Conteh
For now, the answer is: yes it can. But the real issue becomes: to what extent? In one sense, the African...
Tags: Africa, Africa's stabilization, African Union, African Union Commission, Al Shabab, AU, DRC, Global Brief, Mali, Mariama Conteh, Mohamed Kheir, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Organization of African Unity, South Africa, Steve McDonald, Uganda, Wilson Center
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