1989, much more than the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago. That, but not only that, changed the world.
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Globalisation’s re-Americanisation
The US now appears to be regaining lost ground in the globalisation thanks to a re-industrialisation.
Cheaper oil, geopolitical effects
Oil has already dropped to three-quarters of the price it had in June. This may have economic consequences: some wished for while others are to be feared.
Can China become a democracy?
Hong Kong’s students have shaken a world that is right now far from needing a crisis in China, despite the protesters have awakened sympathies in the West. But Hong Kong is not China. And the big question is not whether Hong Kong can become democratic but whether China can.
Islamic State: terrorism and insurgency
The Islamic State (IS) is a practitioner of terrorism even more terrible than al-Qaeda as it has recently amply demonstrated. It is also an insurgent movement and an army, and unless that is understood the strategy carried out by the US will fail.
The other necessary international coalition: against the Ebola epidemic
The international coalition against the Ebola epidemic is slowly being built upon the accumulation of mistakes made in the recent past.
To sit and to be on the Security Council
Periodically, Spain gears itself for the enormous effort to get itself elected by the UN General Assembly a non-permanent member of the Security Council for two years.
Scotland: Salmond wins, even if he loses
In practice the referendum in Scotland will actually be a choice between ‘devo max’ or ‘outright independence’. Whatever the result, Salmond wins.
What did NATO promise Gorbachev?
Some in Russia maintain that the West promised there would be no NATO expansion eastwards, even towards what was soon to be the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), in exchange for accepting German unification. The West, particularly the US, maintains there was no such commitment. Which is true?
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