Minxin Pei’s Newsweek article on Why China Won’t Rule the World is one of Global Europe’s must-reads of the week, alongside President Obama’s remarks at the acceptance speech at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony; The real stakes in Afghanistan by Robin Wright; and Carnegie’s Karim Sadjadpour on Engagement with Iran.
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- Activist demands accountability and end to impunity in Zimbabwe
- ‘Southern democracies’ resist Euro-Atlantic embrace
- Solidarity with Muslim democrats vital in combatting violent extremism
- Engaging civil society – in Pakistan at least
- Defending the NED: rehash and rebuttal
- Iran: labor emerging as political factor?
- Chad: revealing insights into former dictator’s methods
- Iraq: region’s ‘natural hegemon’ can show that freedom provides security and prosperity
- Colombia’s push back against ‘wave of autocracy’
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