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The future of negotiations between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, North Korea), South Korea, and the United States over the North’s nuclear program have swung dramatically between warm embraces across an armistice...
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Iran’s Vulnerable Dictatorship: No Longer Able to Hide Its Misdeeds
05 Jan 2018
The following remarks were delivered by Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield, Jr., a former U.S. State and Defense Department official and...
International Security
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The Gender Dimensions of International Peace & Security
27 Dec 2017
TRENDS Research & Advisory recently organized a landmark Summit on The Gender Dimensions of International Peace and Security: Keys...
Gender Dimensions of Security
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The China Model and the New World Order
27 Dec 2017
As a contrast to Brexit, the election of Trump and the rise of anti-globalization populism and protectionism, Chinese leader...
China and International Security
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Will Iraq Relapse Into a New Insurgency?
26 Oct 2017
Daesh’s cruel regime in its attempt to establish itself as a caliphate burnt very hotly and thankfully, its geographic...
Peace & Security
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Russia and OPEC: Will the Relation Last?
26 Oct 2017
On August 28, 2017, the Wall Street Journal reported about the readiness of Russia and Saudi Arabia to push...
Foreign Policy & International Relations
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Muddling Through: The World Bank & IMF Annual Meetings Confront a Leaderless World
16 Oct 2017
Representatives from almost 190 countries have met in Washington DC for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund...
Global Economy
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Concealing Cybercrimes: The Art of Anti-Forensics
16 Oct 2017
Two years ago at a Security Summit in New York City attended by Chief Information Security Officers, Ginni Rometty,...
Transnational Crime & Security
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Securing the State: Structures to Counter Contemporary Terrorism
25 Sep 2017
Despite developing ever increasingly sophisticated responses to counter-terrorism, successful terrorist attacks continue to occur with alarming regularity; which includes...
Security, Defense & Terrorism
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Climate Change & Water Resources in the MENA Region: Looking at Adaptive Governance
25 Sep 2017
A Global Problem in a Regional Context Global climate change phenomena itself is less threatening than the sum of...
Environment & Security
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North Korea and a Return of the “Balance of Terror”
30 Aug 2017
Whether by outside help from Russia and Pakistan, or by native Korean “stick-to-it-iv-ness” the North Korean regime has developed...
Foreign Policy & International Relations
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What Happens After Daesh? Lessons from Africa, the Americas, and the Arab World
30 Aug 2017
The physical defeat of Daesh and the removal of the so-called “Caliphate” from the territories it controls in Iraq...
Peace & Security
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Gulf-Europe Relations Face an Uncertain Future
16 Aug 2017
It is not very clear where the Gulf region stands on the European foreign policy agenda. There stands a...
International Affairs
