Showing posts with label Mark Leonard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Leonard. Show all posts

Thursday, 29 September 2016

Managing a Multipolar Europe (Mark Leonard, Project-Syndicate)

People used to think that the most important decisions affecting Europe were made in Paris, Berlin, or Brussels. But in recent months, as the European Union has confronted the refugee crisis, and the Syrian conflict that is fueling it, Moscow and Ankara have come to the fore. And the EU is divided on how to deal with its two disgruntled neighbors, Russia and Turkey, both of which feel increasingly snubbed by the West.

Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Last Man Standing (Mark Leonard, Project-Syndicate)

Much of modern geopolitics seems to be following the plot from Game of Thrones, with many countries under so much political and economic stress that their only hope is that their rivals collapse before they do. So their governments cling to power while exploiting rivals’ internal weaknesses

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/geopolitics-game-of-thrones-by-mark-leonard-2016-05

Monday, 25 April 2016

Brexit's international observers: The good, the bad and the ugly (Mark Leonard, ECFR)

Why are the Brexiteers so worried about the American President’s intervention in the referendum campaign? It speaks volumes about how much the political class has lost credibility in the UK. In the 1975 referendum, a key factor that swung opinion was the relative credibility of the British politicians that lined up on each side. The In side was led by popular and credible politicians while the Out campaign was caricatured as political, the “men with staring eyes”.

http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_7004

Thursday, 21 April 2016

The Migration Superpowers (Mark Leonard (Project-Syndicate)

We have entered the age of migration. If all the people who live outside the country of their birth united to form their own – a republic of the rootless – it would be the fifth-largest country in the world, with a population of more than 240 million people.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/immigration-refugees-geopolitical-boon-by-mark-leonard-2016-04

Tuesday, 8 March 2016

The New Interventionists (Mark Leonard, Project-Syndicate)

Russian planes

The consequences of Russia’s intervention in Syria stretch far beyond the Middle East. The Kremlin’s military campaign has tilted the stalemate in favor of the government and derailed efforts to craft a political compromise to end the war. It also heralds the beginning of a new era in geopolitics, in which large-scale military interventions are not carried out by Western coalitions, but by countries acting in their own narrow self-interest, often in contravention of international law.

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/interventionism-effect-on-global-order-by-mark-leonard-2016-03