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1 week ago |
atlanticcouncil.org | Katherine Walla
On May 27, Peter Mandelson, the British ambassador to the United States, spoke at this year’s edition of the Atlantic Council’s Christopher J. Makins Lecture, a series exploring the state of the Atlantic partnership and its future direction.
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2 weeks ago |
atlanticcouncil.org | Katherine Walla
When Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser of the Bangladeshi interim government, stepped off his plane and onto a red carpet in Beijing in March, he did not just break tradition: He lit a fuse in South Asia. Typically, new Bangladeshi leaders head to India for their first bilateral visit abroad, but Yunus instead traveled to China. Peking University bestowed him with an honorary doctorate.
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2 weeks ago |
atlanticcouncil.org | Katherine Walla
Corruption Eastern Europe Elections Fast Thinking: Why Romania chose centrism in the end JUST IN Dan’s the man. Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan won Sunday’s Romanian presidential election, a triumph for centrist, pro-European forces in a country that has been roiled by six months of electoral upheaval. “We need to build Romania together irrespective of who you voted for,” Dan told cheering supporters.
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3 weeks ago |
atlanticcouncil.org | Katherine Walla
Geography is destiny. The quote is sometimes attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, but it might as well also be the working motto of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. This past week, Erdoğan strung together a trio of geopolitical wins that underscored his success in leveraging his country’s size, military capability, and—perhaps most of all—geographic position to achieve outsize influence.
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3 weeks ago |
atlanticcouncil.org | Katherine Walla
The recent headline-grabbing flare-up between India and Pakistan over Kashmir was punctuated by missile strikes, one of the fiercest aerial dogfights since World War II, retaliatory rhetoric, and a shaky cease-fire. But there’s a quieter, yet equally consequential, shift worth watching closely: one taking place among India and Pakistan’s neighbors. These neighbors are Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives, none of which has nuclear weapons.
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