Multipolarity

  • Czech Republic Politics

    While some of you probably will not find this of interest, the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a Philadelphia-based foreign policy think tank, has published another article of mine on the Czech Republic. The quick summary is that as parliamentary elections await in the second half of 2025 the country runs the risk of joining Hungary…

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  • Drama in Syria

    There are certain events in the foreign policy realm that simply take the breath away.  The scenes from Damascus, Syria on the 8th of December, signalling the fitting end to a half century of brutal familial dictatorship in the heart of the Middle East, fall into the breathtaking category.  Fourteen years after the start of…

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  • This is the second in a series of Viewpoint articles focused on key foreign policy challenges for the next U.S. President. The articles will run between now and the general election on 5 November.  In an interview with NBC News in 1998, then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright called the United States “the indispensable nation.”  The…

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