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Turkish Forces Try to Crush Remnants of Coup

Orhan Coskun and Gulsen Solaker July 17, 2016
Turkey crushed a military coup attempt that has left more than 250 civilians and military personnel dead and more than 6,000 detained. Criticism has dogged the Turkish president in recent years for limiting democratic rights. “A successful overthrow of Erdogan, who has ruled the country of about 80 million people since 2003, would have marked one of the biggest shifts in the Middle East in years...

Brexit Won’t Stop Globalization

Michael Schuman July 15, 2016
Fear and distrust over free trade, immigration and other facets of globalization spill from the world’s most advanced economies as the emerging economies pay no mind. “Isolationism is being heralded as independence,” writes Michael Schuman for Bloomberg. “While there are pockets of resistance, much of the world is still forging tighter links between countries, companies, and communities. Rather...

Nato and Russia – In Search of Dialogue

Jonathan Marcus July 14, 2016
In 1997, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Russia, determining that they were no longer adversaries after the Cold War, signed a pact on building a “lasting and inclusive peace in the Euro-Atlantic area.” Good relations did not last long, explains Jonathan Marcus for BBC News. Russia expressed concern after NATO accepted members once were within the sphere of control of the Soviet Union...

Law Challenges China Dream for Control of South China Sea

Nayan Chanda July 14, 2016
In a unanimous decision, the Arbitral Tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled in favor of the Philippines against China’s claims to virtually all of the South China Sea and suggested China’s actions violate the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. Both the Philippines and China are signatories to the treaty. In rejecting China’s wide claims and describing its activities...

Hague Tribunal Rejects Beijing’s Claims in South China Sea

Jane Perlez July 12, 2016
A long-awaited decision from the international Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague has rejected China’s claims to most of the South China Sea along with the construction of artificial islands and damage to coral reefs. “The landmark case, brought by the Philippines, was seen as an important crossroads in China’s rise as a global power,” writes Jane Perlez for the New York Times. “It is...

Why Economic Sanctions Have Failed Against North Korea

Dursun Peksen July 11, 2016
Sanctions from the international community are failing to destabilize North Korea’s ruling regime and its nuclear program. “Though the most recent UN sanctions and the U.S. Treasury Department financial sanctions designating North Korea as a ‘primary money laundering concern’ are the toughest measures to date, they have not yet broken the cycle of the regime responding to external pressure with...

The Impossibility of a “LatAmExit”

Patricio Navia July 8, 2016
“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all," wrote British poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. Patricio Navia, writing for Buenos Aires Herald, applies that sentiment to Brexit: “The only thing worse than risking the possibility that a member chooses to leave a regional integration initiative with more successes than failures, is that there is no such union,” he writes. “Latin...