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Digital Trade Needs More Coordination, Leadership
Electronic documentation in trade has made impressive recent gains in Asia and the Pacific. Up to 38 per cent of banks in the region report progress in digitising their operations in 2015, and more than a third of countries had partially or...
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Afghanistan, a Country on the Brink
Over the last ten years, the mantra of experts and scholars highlighted the uncertain future of Afghanistan. The situation on the ground shows an ambiguous mix of instability and tentative signs of progress. To this very day, any future scenario...
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OPEC’s Challenge: Sentiment, Events and Fundamentals Complicate Producer Decisionmaking
OPEC’s rollover deliberations have become more complicated and perhaps more urgent after both market fundamentals and sentiment reversed last week. At the start of the week, industry optimism on the oil price outlook was upbeat, but within days,...
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Turkey: On the Road to a Presidential System
The Turkish parliament has adopted a constitutional reform package that introduces a presidential system. The amendments not only impair parliament’s role but also weaken the judiciary’s independence. To enter into force, the reform package...
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What Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s new foreign minister, brings to the Global Affairs file
The former journalist, who found success with CETA as trade minister and is barred from Russia, replaced Stéphane Dion this week. Here are five things to know about her. A cabinet shuffle within the Trudeau government on Tuesday saw a...
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Fall of Aleppo: Challenges Persist
After years of rebel control in the ongoing Syrian civil war, the city of Aleppo fell under the full control of the Syrian army and pro-Government allied forces on December 13, 2016, thus marking a turning point in this protracted civil war. In...
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The Russian Federation’s New Foreign Policy Concept
On 30 November 2016, President Vladimir Putin signed a new Russian Foreign Policy Concept. In the document, Russia states its aspirations to pursue an active policy in the field of international security (especially in the Middle East). One of...
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A Blow to South Africa’s Soft Power: Leaving the ICC
South Africans woke up on the morning of 21 October 2016 to the shocking announcement that the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Maite Nkoana Mashabane, had submitted an instrument of withdrawal from the Rome Statute to the UN...
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The International Dimension of the Fight for Aleppo
The offensive by Bashar al-Assad’s military, supported by Russian troops, on Aleppo—Syria’s largest city—might be successful. This large-scale operation was facilitated by the improved relations between Russia and Turkey and because the United...
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The World Needs a More Equitable Refugee System
This week, world leaders converge in New York for the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). One of the major topics on the agenda is how the world can do a better job addressing mass movements of refugees and...