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n the South China Sea. In Africa, South Sudan and the Lake Chad basin are sites of serious humanitarian concern that transcend national borders. In South America, Venezuela is in the midst of dire political and economic crisis. The list could go on and on. The world is changing rapidly and governments and in

ict in Ukraine persists and relations between Russia and the West are tense. Refugees and migrants continue to make the perilous journey across the Mediterranean by the thousands, and the populist right remains strong in Poland and Hungary—challenging the liberal democratic foundations of the European Union.

m QE), has led to economic and financial stresses in many emerging-market economies. These economies — the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and others — were overhyped for too long. Favorable external conditions — the effect of China's strong growth on higher commodity prices and easy

not give voice to that concern. He told his staff during recent Situation Room meetings as American naval and air power was moved into the eastern Mediterranean that no United States intervention would alter the long-term balance of power in the Syrian civil war. That was the bitter lesson of the Iraq and A

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jean will discuss the EU's current military operations and missions under the banner of the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), from the Mediterranean to the Indo-Pacific, and how the Strategic Compass could reinforce the EU's ability to act. He will also reflect on the state of EU-NATO cooperatio

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f the world's economy that is integrated into the trade system moved back to a pre-Lewisian state with excess subsistence labour in Asia, Africa and South America competing with Western labour. It is the belief of the author that, at the time of writing, the richer, industrialised, countries are currently si

my belief that it is debt, or more particularly, savings rates, that are key. In Europe rich Germany has a high savings rate while Ireland and the Mediterranean countries have lower savings rates and higher debt. On a bigger scale poorer China has one of the highest savings rates ever seen, and America has

, accidents, crises were once local. A drought in California was, largely, a drought in California. A slowdown in China hit Shenzhen or Shanghai, not South America. Now, as networks overlap and influence each other, crises cascade at a new, stunning and comprehensive scale. And while we know 56 “It is one thing

ties. Egypt and Mesopotamia developed great powers that endured for centuries along the Nile and the Euphrates. Later, networks of trade overlaid the Mediterranean, which became the heart of the wealthy Carthaginian, Roman and Byzantine empires. And the greatest geographical empire in history, Great Britain, was

also filled with enduring, stable arrangements - moments where the balance settles a bit and a single power dominates. Asia, Europe, the Middle East, South America - each produced nations that stretched mastery the system for generations, for centuries even. If you map the rise and fall of nations and empires ov

owing full well the answer would be measured in blood and treasure and children. Put yourself in the place of the population of Melos, a peace-loving Mediterranean island whose destruction 2300 years ago was chronicled by Thucydides in The Peloponesian Wars. “Surely you have noticed that you are an island and we