GB explores the rising continent’s transformations, contradictions, risks and opportunities with one of Asia-Pacific’s...
Tags: ASEAN, Asia, Asia-Pacific, Asian education, China, clash of civilizations, East Asia, fincancial crisis, Global Brief, Kishore Mahbubani, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Russia, US, West Asia
The strategy for success this century is ACRE: America, China, Russia and Europe
In past issues of GB, I have written that...
Tags: 100 million Canadians, ACRE, American, Canadian foreign policy, Canadian leadership, Canadian population, Canadian power, Canadian strategic power, Canadian strategy, China, Europe, Global Brief, Irvin Studin, Russia
Russia emphasizes the economic, Europe the political and moral. An ideological great game by any other name may just be two...
Tags: Belarus, Eastern Europe, economic modernization, EU, Euro, Global Brief, global financial flows, modernization, Moldova, Russia, Tatiana Romanova, Turkey, Ukraine
GB discusses the many-sided condition of the conditional state with former Canadian foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy
GB:...
Tags: Aboriginal rights, Arctic, China, duty to care, environmental impact, Global Brief, human rights, humanitarian crisis, humanitarian intervention, India, Inuit, Kofi Annan, Libyan internvention, Lloyd Axworthy, R2P, Responsibility to Protect, Russia, Security Council reform, Syrian intervention, US, WW2
GB discusses competitive advantage, the wealth of firms, and the theatres in which they will compete with the Financial Times’...
Tags: Brazil, China, companies, competitive advantage, Corporate Social Responsibility, economic crisis, financial crises, Financial Times, future of finance, future of international business, Global Brief, John Kay, profitable business, Russia, strategic business planning, US
Why Canada and Russia should unite to support a common position against the US in advancing certain Arctic claims
Unlike...
Tags: 1949 Corfu Channel Case, 1959 Antarctic Treaty, Arctic, Arctic competition, Arctic ocean, Canada, climate change, Global Brief, Michael Byers, Northern Sea Route, Russia, UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, UNCLOS, US
GB picks the brain of one of the world’s brainiest on the roles of government, civilization and culture in disciplining...
Will the Russian language be in decline or on the rise by the year 2050?
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Historically, the international significance...
Tags: Baltic states, Chekhov, Commonwealth of Independent States, Dostoyevsky, Global Brief, Lenin, Marxist, Nicholas Ostler, Prime Minister Putin, Russia, Russian diaspora, Russian foreign policy, Russian language, Timur Atnashev, Tolstoy, Trotsky, USSR
Pakistan’s internal troubles and external behaviour point increasingly to the need for an increasingly muscular Indian...
Tags: Global Brief, India, India-Pakistan relations, India-Pakistan war, Inter-Services Intelligence, Islamabad, Kashmir, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Mumbai attacks, NATO, Pakistan, Ramesh Thakur, Russia, terrorism
One decade out, prepare for unexpected winners and losers
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In both the science of chaos theory and the science-fiction...
Tags: Alan Middleton, Brazil, BRIC, chaos theory, China, global brands, Global Brief, global corporations, global GDP, India, Industrial Revolution, market thinking, Microsoft, Russia, Schulich School of Business, winners in business
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