Latest Research: Blindspots


NATO: One Foot Forward, One Foot Stuck

November 29, 2010

‘LISBON’ OPENED NEW GROUND, BUT AFGHANISTAN REMAINS THE STORY NATO concluded its summit meeting in Lisbon in 2010, where it adopted a new strategic concept better suited to the security challenges of the twenty-first century.  Moving away from Cold War...

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The G20 Becomes G2

November 22, 2010

THE TROUBLED REALITY OF THE WORLD’S BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP As the Seoul G20 summit retreats into history, one awkward truth is becoming clear. The broad meeting really centred on the relationship between only two countries: China and the United States Coming...

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G20 Steps Forward in Seoul

November 15, 2010

THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL SUMMIT MOVES BEYOND CRISIS MANAGEMENT The G20 Seoul Summit ended on November 12, 2010 after two days of intense talks among world leaders. The fact that the summit took place peacefully, without any violent protests from...

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War, Remembrance and the News

November 8, 2010

A LEADING WAR CORRESPONDENT ON HOW WE’RE NOW DISCUSSING AN ANCIENT SCOURGE There is a school of thought in military circles that insists however much you dress war up in new theories or bold doctrines and however much technology seems...

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U.S. Midterms: House Republicans Take the World’s Stage

November 1, 2010

OBAMA’S WORLD VIEW STUMBLES DOWN ‘THE HILL’ As the world turns its attention to U.S. midterm elections, a predictive model that synthesizes many current and historical data tells one clear story: Democrats will likely face serious setbacks in the House of...

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Asian Regionalism

October 25, 2010

THE MORE, NOT THE MERRIER Asia is in the middle of a very impressive flurry of regional meetings and the acronyms, new and old, are multiplying. But in multilateral politics, growing competition among new players is not the sign of...

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NATO’s Future, in Four Parts

October 11, 2010

BY THE END OF NOVEMBER 2010, THE WORLD KNEW WHERE NATO WAS HEADING By the end of November 2010, the world knew how NATO pictured its own future.  That’s when heads of state and government met in Brussels to plan...

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The IMF and the World Bank – Just the G20’s Number Crunchers?

October 4, 2010

THIS MONTH’S ANNUAL MEETINGS RAISE AN AWKWARD QUESTION. Finance ministers and central bankers flew into Washington DC in October 2010 for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. It’s not clear why they even bothered....

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The U.N. Assembles, with Reform on the Table

September 20, 2010

CAN THE SECURITY COUNCIL BECOME EFFECTIVE AND REPRESENTATIVE? As the United Nations General Assembly met for its 65th Session in September 2010, the U.N. as a whole faced the risk of slowly fading onto the sidelines, unless the Security Council...

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G20: November in Seoul, then what?

September 13, 2010

CAN THIS FORUM OUTLAST THE CRISES THAT PRODUCED IT? The G20 leaders met again in Seoul on November 11th and 12th, 2010, only five months after the Toronto summit.  Whatever they hoped to discuss, they faced one key question: How,...

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