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A Way Around Israel
By Timothy Palmer, current student in the IE Master in International Relations (MIR) In Plato’s Parable of the Cave he tells a story of prisoners who grew up and spent all their lives inside a cave....
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So Long, Chávez
Where Does This Leave Venezuela? By Michael Shifter Two decades ago, following the end of the Cold War, the United States and Latin America seemed more prepared than ever before to forge political and...
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New Pope Shifts Church’s Center of Gravity Away From Europe
The surprise selection on Wednesday of an Argentine, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, as the new pope shifted the gravity of the Roman Catholic Church from Europe to Latin America in one fell swoop,...
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Will Coercive Diplomacy Work with Iran?
What would Alex George say about coercing Iran? By Stephen M. Walt Will the U.S. effort to coerce Iran succeed? For the past ten years or more, the United States has been engaged in coercive diplomacy...
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What Machiavelli Can Teach Us Today
Machiavelli’s Virtue By Robert Kaplan What is modernity? Is it skyscrapers, smart phones, wonder drugs, atomic bombs? You’re not even close. Modernity, at least in the West, is the journey away from...
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Nice Speech, Mr. President – Now What?
Obama said all the right things in Jerusalem. Now what? By Daniel Levy Something odd happened during Wednesday’s press conference between Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu. When asked to address the...
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Why North Korea Regime is Scary
By Scott A. Snyder North Korea, under its untested young leader Kim Jong Un, has ratcheted up the threats toward South Korea and the United States to unprecedented levels and with greater intensity...
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The North Korea Deal That Wasn’t
I heard Pyongyang make a real offer — but the Obama White House didn’t even listen. By Joel Wit Given the torrent of threats and insults hurtling out of Pyongyang these days, North Korea’s...
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What war on the Korean Peninsula would look like
Tell Me How This Starts By Patrick M. Cronin The Korean Peninsula is on a knife’s edge, one fateful step from war. While Koreans are accustomed to periodic spikes in tensions, the risk of renewed...
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How Margaret Thatcher affected International Relations Theory
By Daniel W. Drezner Margaret Thatcher has passed away. I could try to talk about Thatcher’s place as a world historical figure, but let’s face it, there’s going to be an orgy of columns on that very...
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How the Falklands War Saved Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher: pro-European ‘wet’ transformed by a triumphant war The hypercautious leader who showered money on the unions was about to get the boot: the Falklands changed all that. By Simon...
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Why Iran isn’t the Soviet Union
By Jonathan Adelman Despite the rhetoric of the Obama administration and tougher sanctions, hard realities suggest a likely American policy of not attacking Iran but seeking to contain it. For Iran,...
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Beware the Few
You can’t beat a lone terrorist — or al Qaeda for that matter — with shock and awe. By John Arquilla The terror bombing of the Boston Marathon is yet one more item in a bloody skein of evidence that...
View ArticleThe World Is Marching Toward Anarchy
By Robert Kaplan Everyone loves equality: equality of races, of ethnic groups, of sexual orientations, and so on. The problem is, however, that in geopolitics equality usually does not work very well....
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Is Cyber War the New Cold War?
China and the U.S. both want a rules-based cyberspace, but do not see eye to eye. A potentially dangerous Cyber Cold War awaits if they cannot agree on some rules of engagement. By Trefor Moss...
View ArticleRicardo Añino, Director of the Tribuna Americana at Casa de America in...
In an interview with Waya Quiviger, Executive Director of IE’s Master in International Relations, Ricardo Añino talks about public diplomacy and the importance of communication with foreign publics in...
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The Middle East’s New Map
By Robert D. Kaplan The most appropriate image of the present-day Middle East is the medieval map, which, in the words of the late historian Albert Hourani, depicts an age when “frontiers were not...
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What China and Russia Don’t Get About Soft Power
Beijing and Moscow are trying their hands at attraction, and failing — miserably. By Joseph S. Nye When Foreign Policy first published my essay “Soft Power” in 1990, who would have expected that...
View ArticleIE School of International Realtions interviews Tomás Abadía, President & CEO...
Tomás Abadía, President and CEO of IADIC (International Advisors on Development, Investment & Commerce) on EU relations with Latin America (in Spanish). Click here to view the embedded video.
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