Proposition: National champions are good economic policy in the 21st century
Watson (against): One silver lining to...
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A majestic region-wide union may well transform the strategic calculus of the sceptics and the spoilers
Victor Hugo famously...
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The polar endgame is anticlimax: no major conflict in sight, and strategic cooperation reigns
The Arctic, strategically...
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