Tag: Economic Sanctions
Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan: Russia’s Post-Soviet Hegemony Is Fading
10th October 2020
Vladimir Putin has long sought to portray himself as strong statesman and guarantor of stability, at home and abroad. Now the Russian president is grappling with successive crises among his country’s neighbors. It’s an unwelcome test of Moscow’s role as ...
Belarus’s Lukashenko and Turkey’s Erdogan Are Laughing at the EU
25th September 2020
Behold the mighty European Union, second only to the U.S. in economic heft. But also witness what a minnow it is in world diplomacy. Is it any wonder the world’s hard-nosed autocrats and nationalists, practitioners of ...
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Macron’s Rhetoric Against Turkey’s Erdogan Has Reached Its Limit
11th September 2020
For Emmanuel Macron, the moment of truth is approaching at a rate of knots. The French president has again fired off rhetorical broadsides at his Turkish counterpart over the crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean. But ...
Turkey’s adventurist-in-chief. In 2010, Turkey’s “Zero Problems” foreign-policy doctrine was the marvel of the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country was using diplomacy and commerce to develop ...