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America is militarily overstretched, politically polarized and financially indebted.
Any unveiling is also veiling. No matter how transparent our governments want to be, governments will be selectively transparent.
As a rule, governments monitor people.
Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.
Living in truth cannot be reduced to having access to full information.
Regimes like the one in Russia are stabilized by the fact that they have no ideology. There is really no ideological means to attack them.
The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure.
True, Putin's Russia does not dream of joining the E.U., but Russia's stability depends on preserving the European nature of its regime.
America is a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of people who never emigrate. Notably, Americans living outside the United States are not... →
As China is about adaptation, not transformation, it is unlikely to change the world dramatically should it ever assume the global driver's seat.... →
Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles... →
Before, revolutions used to have ideological names. They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic. Now, the... →
Germany, because of the fact and the perception of a special relationship with Russia, is the only one who can influence Russian debate. Russians... →
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