Posted on August 21, 2018. Tags: Beijing, China, Donald Trump, Kissinger, protectionism, soft power, Trade, trade war, Trump administration
The opening shots in the “trade war” between Washington and Beijing have raised concerns around the whole world, causing a heated debate about the logic of the Trump Administration’s policy against China. While most analysis has focussed on the economic effects of the trade war, less discussed has been the dispute’s impact on other areas […]
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Posted on August 23, 2015. Tags: catalonia, Democracy, euro, European Union, eurozone crisis, Francois Mitterand, Germany, Helmut Kohl, Hitler, Kissinger, Legitimacy, Merkel, NATO, Nazis, Scotland, Soviet Union, Weimar
This article was originally published by The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in Carnegie Ethics Online on 17 August 2015. In Klaus Harpprecht’s 1995 biography of Thomas Mann, he highlights a statement which Mann wrote in 1947, which, as Harpprecht puts it, “one reads with a distinct shiver half a century later”: In […]
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