There are two questions here. There's what does Russia want? And there’s what does Putin want? And the one that’s clearly dominating everything is: what does Putin want? Unfortunately... Читать далее
Director of the Welsh Institute for Research in Economics and Development, Head of Economics at Cardiff University and former President of the European Historical Economics Society.
Well, in many cases it doesn’t seem to be very effective! But economic forecasters aren’t fortune-tellers or soothsayers. Their predictions are conditional on certain things happening or... Читать далее
Women’s rights campaigner and European director of Equality Now, one of the campaign groups supporting the various Women’s Marches across the world. @Jacq_Hunt
Absolutely. Mass protest shows a real depth of feeling among the people who participate. It also gives those who are not normally engaged the means to get involved. It recognises the inter... Читать далее
Its first and foremost aim is to establish Russia's place on the world stage once again. I’m afraid we have to keep going back to Soviet times because there are so many parallels between... Читать далее
Research Fellow in History and Politics at Queens' College, Cambridge. Author of the book "The Emergence of Globalism: Visions of World Order in Britain and the United States" (Princeton University Press, 2017)
During and after the Second World War, public intellectuals in Britain and the United States diagnosed the world of their times as increasingly interconnected. Many of them also described... Читать далее
Russia is spending more on its military. We see what’s happening in Ukraine and Syria. It’s sending a flotilla through the English Channel, overflying airspace very close to NATO's... Читать далее
I think that the main reason is in the danger of disappearing. Different nations are getting influenced by another ones. They loose their individuality. For instance, in modern variants... Читать далее
Distinguished research fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS), National Defense University, where she specializes on regional energy politics, Middle East politics and the Kurdish issue. @dNataliDC
If the West supports the Kurds, are we supporting terrorism?
This question begs further questions: which Kurds? And what issues of concern?
Many state that Kurdish Peshmerga in Iraq and the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (PYG) – a PKK affiliate... Читать далее
It’s such a mixed issue. He looked for stable relationships, he looked for relationships which would provide economic recovery, that would reduce tension. His big watchword in 2009 was... Читать далее
Author of South China Sea: The Struggle For Power In Asia (Yale 2014), Vietnam: Rising Dragon (Yale 2010), TV journalist, Associate Fellow of @CHAsiaProg @bill_hayton
It matters fundamentally for two reasons. First: an estimated 5 trillion dollars worth of trade passes through it every year: whether that's plastic buckets coming out of Chinese... Читать далее