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LEBANON – Aoun’s call to empower the Lebanese caretaker cabinet is unconstitutional and wrong (Al Arabiya)

Lebanese President Michel Aoun (left) and Prime Minister Saad Hariri during the October press conference in Beirut on October 20 2016. Photograph: Mohamed Azakir...

CLIMATE CHANGE – Investigating climate change’s ‘humidity paradox’ (Kate Willett, WEF)

Climate change is altering the quantity of water vapour in the air, and it's throwing nature off-balance. Image: Unsplash/Inge Maria There are two types of...

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE – 3 ways businesses can harness their might for the good of all (Nilanjan Roy, WEF)

It's not just up to governments to shape a brighter future Image: Benjamin Davies / Unsplash Society has given corporations a licence to operate -...

ABKHAZIA/RUSSIA – Abkhazia Bolsters Linkages With Russia (Zaal Anjaparidze, The Jamestown Foundation)

Abkhazian "President" Akhra Bzhania and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Sochi, November 12 (Source: kremlin.ru) On November 24, the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs strictly condemned...

THE MINSK GROUP – Karabakh War’s Diplomatic Casualty (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation, Part Four)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts, Moscow, April 2019 (Source: Azerbaijan MFA) Over the past two decades, the main international...

RUSSIA – Russia Strives for an Oil and Gas Resurgence (Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation)

(Source: Bloomberg) As the global economy—animated by the arrival of multiple COVID-19 vaccines—hopes for the first signs of recovery, expectations also rise in Russia for...

USA – America Passed the Trump Stress Test (Eric Posner, Project-Syndicate)

After four years of President Donald Trump's contempt for established political norms, it is tempting to say that American constitutional democracy has suffered long-term...

INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING – The Infrastructure Spending Challenge (Kenneth Rogoff, Project-Syndicate)

Macroeconomists broadly agree that productive infrastructure spending is welcome after a deep recession, especially when interest rates are at record lows. But in advanced...

USA – Jerrold Post: One of the CIA’s truly great innovators (Bruce Riedel, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/12/07/jerrold-post-one-of-the-cias-truly-great-innovators/
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