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Caught in the Web of Bureaucracy? How ‘Failed’ Land Deals Shape the State in Tanzania

Date de publication
01 August 2020
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After more than ten years of hectic debates on international ‘land grabs’, academic interest in collapsed land deals or projects with unexpected results is growing.

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Global Order in the Shadow of the Coronavirus: China, Russia and the West

Date de publication
29 July 2020
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The coronavirus pandemic has thrown a harsh spotlight on the state of global governance. Faced with the greatest emergency since the Second World War, nations have regressed into narrow self-interest. The concept of a rules-based international order has been stripped of meaning, while liberalism faces its greatest crisis in decades.

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France and the Modernization of the EU-Turkey Customs Union: Interests and Obstacles

Date de publication
28 July 2020
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This report is part of a joint endeavor of the Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS) at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), along with Elcano Royal Institute (ELCANO, Madrid), The Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM, Warsaw), Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI, Rome) and the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP, Athens), to open perspectives for the modernization of the European Union-Turkey Customs Union (EU-Turkey CU). 

Aurélien DENIZEAU Dorothée SCHMID
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Japan’s Space Program: Shifting Away from “Non-Offensive” Purposes?

Date de publication
15 July 2020
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Japan’s space program has evolved greatly since the end of the Cold War, driven by a rapidly changing geopolitical environment and tailored by the emergence of an “intra-alliance hedging strategy”.

Lionel FATTON

The European Equation of Nuclear Deterrence, Variables and Possible Solutions

Date de publication
06 July 2020
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Ever since nuclear weapons were developed by the United States and the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, Europe has lived under the nuclear shadow. A major direct confrontation between “the West” and “the East” could have very likely resulted in the detonation of nuclear weapons on the continent. As the Cold War ended, massive reductions in the US and Soviet arsenals (from 70,300 in 1986 to 13,890 in 2019) and a new security architecture radically transformed the European security environment.

Russia and Latin America in the 21st Century: A Difficult Rapprochement

Date de publication
02 July 2020
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This article analyses Russia’s relations with Latin America in the first two decades of the 21st century in the light of global political and economic processes.

Andrey PYATAKOV
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Consequences and Lessons of a Virus

Date de publication
01 July 2020
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As Europeans get ready for their summer holidays, the Covid-19 pandemic seems to be winding down, despite hotspots cropping up here and there. However, we are not safe from the next wave. After so many careless speeches, nobody dares to make any more precise forecasts. In any case, any confirmed lull fosters broader reflections both on the disaster’s consequences and the dysfunctions that allowed it to happen.

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Les ressources humaines, un enjeu stratégique pour les armées

Date de publication
30 June 2020
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The French Military Planning Act for the years 2019-2025, is “dedicated” to men and women in the services, showing how crucial the human factor is for the armed forces.

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