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A Brief History of International Influence in Afghanistan
Introduction: Many observers and commentators were caught by surprise by the speed with which the Afghan national government was replaced by the Taliban, officially the Islamic Emirate of...
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New Roadmap for Denuclearization and Peacebuilding
...completes the process of denuclearization. However, there are also growing debates within the US that it could be more effective to take incremental steps and a parallel approach by providing...
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Water Diplomacy and Sustainable Management in Mesopotamia
...been efforts to establish institutionalized cooperative mechanisms in the past, when political relations between the countries flourished. Turkey and Syria signed a water allocation agreement for the Euphrates in 1987,...
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Hong Kong’s Summer of Rage
...fragile border). Emboldened (or, perhaps, constrained) by Beijing’s firm albeit misplaced support, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, Hong Kong’s chief executive selected in 2017 with 777 votes by a 1200-member Election...
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The art of compromise: picking up the pieces after Hanoi
...States understands that sanctions remain its main leverage and that, rightly or wrongly, even modest relief could de-incentivise North Korea to conduct further denuclearisation measures. The summit gave space for...
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Window of Opportunity: Breaking Impasse on the Korean Peninsula
...seen a key tool of leverage to ensure Pyongyang’s full compliance to denuclearization as well as uphold the global nuclear non-proliferation regime. North Korea’s focus on sanctions relief may reflect,...
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Modernization and Regional Cooperation in Central Asia: A New Spring?
...in oil prices in late 2014. Beginning in 2015, a serious effort at political and economic reform began in Kazakhstan. In 2016, the power transition in Uzbekistan led to the...
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Mental Illness: Myanmar’s Hidden Epidemic
...appropriate. These include the belief in the efficacy of traditional healers and religious officiants employed to treat illness. Consulting astrologers is common and can complicate treatment by supporting fatalistic notions...
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A Reset for U.S.-DPRK Relations: The Path Ahead
...a vision statement of a new peaceful future for U.S.-North Korea relations, it nonetheless leaves much of the detail regarding its implementation for subsequent negotiations. This policy brief identities the...
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After the Pyeongchang Olympics: Prospects for Inter-Korean Relations
...DPRK’s firm will and sincere efforts. The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, in his meeting with the delegation of the special envoy of the south Korean president, reiterated that it...