Charlie Hebdo: more questions than (provisional) answers
Why the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in France? Al-Qaeda or the IS? Will there be more attacks? Will the attacks reinforce far-right extremism?
Global Spectator
The coming proliferation: home-printed guns
The threat of a coming proliferation of light-weight guns is something about the states and the international community can do little, but some sort of response will certainly become necessary.
Giving up on regime change, but hoping to transform them
Perhaps the most significant change in the normalisation process of US relations with Cuba and Iran, is having given up in the demand for a regime change,
We’re losing Turkey
Turkey is moving further away from the West and getting closer to Eurasia.
A more global connectedness
The worldwide connectedness has only discreetly recovered after its decline. This has been highlighted by the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2014
Israel-Palestine: time is running out and religion is no help
the fact that the religious issue has come to the fore in Israel and Palestine makes it increasingly difficult to implement the two-State solution.
Meanwhile, in Scotland and England…
The reverberations of the September referendum on independence in Scotland are causing major changes in British politics.
Double majority in the European Union
The voting system in the Council by a double majority of states and populations in the European Union came into effect on 1 November
Global Germany at 25
25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German government has declared its intention of gaining a more active role in the world for Germany.
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