European signatories of the Minsk II Agreement should abandon the deal and go back to the negotiating tables in order to prevent the possibility of civil war in Ukraine.
Rather than using the war-narrative, there is evidence that people may accept difficult steps if they are coupled with a more humane and sympathetic narrative.
The challengefor NGOs is to gain in reflexivity through an exercise of active observation and assessment, to generate situational responses that need to be constantly assessed.
A Trump re-election loss will not remove structural barriers to collaboration, but it might delegitimate some of the zero-sum thinking that proliferated during his time.
If we fail to examine scenarios of pandemics worse than Covid-19, we will suffer similar results and western democracies may find it hard to recover from such events.
The European debate over coronavirus is not geographical but ideological, involving three competing views of how Europe should address current and future challenges.
Only a strong and coordinated response from the whole European Union will help states getting through the challenges produced by the pandemic.
Trump has placed the US in a position to have its oil production manipulated by a cartel vying to remain relevant and a geopolitical rival seeking leverage.
Low-Cost Institutions empower their executive, bureaucratic and societal participants, changing the pattern of authority in global governance and its actors composition.
The current crisis was generated neither by a rare ‘black swan’ nor by a well visible ‘grey rhino’. Instead, it was a simple ‘bee in a car’ that caused this disaster.
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