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AUTHORITARIANISM – How Huntington and Fukuyama got the 21st century wrong (Howard Brasted, Shafi Mostofa, Al Jazeera)

What is going on in the 21st-century world of international politics? With very few exceptions, national elections are revealing degrees of partisanship and ideological...

SUDAN – Sudanese demand ‘justice’ two years after protests erupted (Al Arabiya)

Thousands of demonstrators marched through Sudanese towns on Saturday calling for change, two years since the start of a protest movement that led to...

CANADA/USA – Huawei exec’s lawyers open new front in extradition trial: Report (Al Arabiya)

Canada would violate international law by extraditing a Huawei executive to the United States, her lawyers argue in new documents cited by the Canadian...

LEBANON – Why Hezbollah is losing the support of Lebanon’s Shia community (Hanin Ghaddar, Al Arabiya)

Hezbollah’s adventurism in Syria and the wider region has alienated the support of many Lebanese Shia. The organization has also lost its military discipline...

USA/YEMEN – President-elect Joe Biden can help end the war in Yemen (Khaled H. Alyemany, Atlantic Council)

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/president-elect-joe-biden-can-help-end-the-war-in-yemen/

WEST/CHINA – Global Strategy 2021: An Allied Strategy for China (Matthew Kroenig and Jeffrey Cimmino, Atlantic Council)

This paper benefited from discussions in the Atlantic Council’s Strategy Consortium, a forum that brings together strategists from diverse sectors—think tanks, academia, government, and the private sector—to...

USA/ITALY/POLITICAL UNCERTAINTY – How political uncertainty hurts the US economy: Lessons from Italy (Carlo Bastasin, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/12/18/how-political-uncertainty-hurts-the-us-economy-lessons-from-italy/

USA – Charts of the Week: Biden’s cabinet diversity; COVID-19 in Trump-won counties; health inequities (Olivia Tran and Fred Dews, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2020/12/18/charts-of-the-week-bidens-cabinet-diversity-covid-19-in-trump-won-counties-health-inequities/

MIGRANTS/PANDEMIC – International Migrants Day and COVID-19 (Omer Karasapan, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2020/12/18/international-migrants-day-and-covid-19/

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