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Europe’s Green Deal Trades One Dependence for Another

Last week, EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton announced that Brussels will propose new rules to ensure the safety of supply chains during crises. Supply chain security is an indispensable goal for any economy, but it’s even more urgent for the European Union because its Green Deal – the plan to achieve carbon neutrality by […]

Daily Memo: Kazakh Unrest Escalates

Kazakhstan under fire. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said he ordered police and the army to open fire on protesters without warning amid continuing anti-government...

Daily Memo: Kazakhstan Reaches Out for Help Amid Protests

Kazakhstan update. After the Kazakh government resigned on Wednesday and protests continued into Thursday, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev turned to the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty...

What Hezbollah Really Wants

Last week, Hezbollah repatriated an Israeli Bedouin who had defected to Lebanon and said he wanted to become a Hezbollah fighter. The group’s decision...

Daily Memo: Kazakhstan Unrest Spreads, North Korea Tests a Missile

Kazakhstan on fire. With the internet in Kazakhstan shut down, reliable news is hard to come by, but here’s what we know. Unrest that...

Russia’s Plan to Woo Azerbaijan

Russia spent much of 2021 trying to reestablish the buffers it lost after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It deployed troops to its...

Daily Memo: NATO Talks to Itself, Indonesia Warns About Coal Supplies

Visit to the front line. With Russian troops on Ukraine’s doorstep, EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell will visit Kyiv on Tuesday. Borrell will...

Daily Memo: US-Ukrainian Talks, Israeli Defense Deals

Affirmation. U.S. President Joe Biden spoke on Sunday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and reaffirmed Washington’s commitment to Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty. The...

Globalization After the Pandemic

We enter 2022 with the same hope that we had as we entered 2021: that the pandemic will end soon. This time, we will...

Daily Memo: Biden-Putin Call, Seoul Eyes Nuclear-Powered Subs

Biden-Putin call. U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a phone call on Thursday on Ukraine and security in Europe....

2021 Year-End Review

(click to enlarge) Scale: Hit, Partial Hit, Inconclusive, Partial Miss, Miss Global The defining feature of 2021 will be insularity. Countries will simply be too consumed with...

Daily Memo: EU Trade, Israeli Meeting

Persuasion. EU trade commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis urged Chile’s incoming president, Gabriel Boric, to sign the trade deal that Brussels negotiated with his predecessor. The...
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