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Planning for progress in Timor-Leste (Joao da Cruz Cardoso, The Interpreter)

After two decades of independence, development in Timor-Leste is exemplified by growing economic activity in Dili, the country’s capital city. Businesses are emerging on...

Iran and US hedge their bets on nuclear deal revival (Ian Dudgeon, The Strategist)

Iran has agreed to recommence negotiations aimed at the US rejoining and fully restoring the Iran nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA)...

AUKUS partners must play catch-up to repair relations with France (Ramesh Thakur, The Strategist)

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is embroiled in a tussle with both French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Joe Biden which, given the power...

Belarus dictator turns hybrid war into humanitarian crisis (Alesia Rudnik, Atlantic Council)

Thousands of migrants from across the Middle East and beyond currently find themselves stranded on the Belarusian-Polish border. They are being cynically used as...

Rich Countries’ Double Standards on Taxation (José Antonio Ocampo, Project-Syndicate)

The last two years have thrown into sharp relief the structural injustices that underpin the global economy. As the COVID-19 pandemic drove an estimated 88-115...

In Face of Western Criticism, Georgian Authorities Adopt Trappings of ‘Sovereign Democracy’ Rhetoric (Beka Chedia, The Jamestown Foundation)

On November 13, one of the top leaders of the ruling Georgian Dream party, former parliamentary chairperson Irakli Kobakhidze, issued a statement, in which...

The Internationalization of the Belarusian Political Crisis Not Working Out in the West’s Favor (Grigory Ioffe, The Jamestown Foundation)

The political crisis in Belarus is far from over. Its internationalization along the lines of a geopolitical tug-of-war between Russia and the West began...

Russia Considers Exporting S-500 Air-Defense Systems to China and India (John C. K. Daly, The Jamestown Foundation)

According to Dmitry Shugaev, the head of Russia’s Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC), Russia may export its most advanced S-500 Prometheus air-defense weaponry...

Dynamic Antitrust Discussion Series: “FTC Rulemaking Authority: Toward Precautionary Regulations?” (ITIF)

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently lifted many guardrails that channeled its rulemaking authority for broad swaths of the U.S. economy. With an expected...

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