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The National Interest: The Case for Kissinger
22
Jul
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The National Interest: The Case for Kissinger

PEJOURNAL - HENRY KISSINGER, who recently turned ninety-seven, is America’s most celebrated living statesman. None of his successors has come close to matching the extraordinary blend of acclaim and notoriety, admiration and criticism that he attracted as national security adviser and secretary of state to Richard M. Nixon and secretary of state to Gerald Ford. The British Foreign Office referred to him at the time as “the Wizard of the Western World'” and Playboy Bunnies voted him the man they would prefer to date in 1972—no small accomplishments for an expert on the Congress of Vienna who spent much of…
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Artificial Intelligence in Foreign Policy
20
Jul
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Artificial Intelligence in Foreign Policy

PEJOURNAL - The world of politics is like a game of chess, based on evaluating scenarios and predicting the best reaction or the best move of the pieces; but the chess of the political world is more complex as many actors with explicit and implicit preferences participate in it and their declarative and practical approaches are not necessarily the same; Internal changes in countries’ policies, including shifts in power and changes in the structure of rent resources, affect the strategies, tactics, and behavior of actors, and ultimately, it is difficult to understand the distinction between signal (signaling a particular motivation…
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Political Economy Journal: BRICS; Risk or Opportunity
20
Jul
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Political Economy Journal: BRICS; Risk or Opportunity

BY: Daniel Ranjbar The BRICS countries flags PEJOURNAL - The BRICS countries are trying to get other countries that are almost in a similar situation to join the group in order to achieve their collective goals with more power. The group currently covers more than 40% of the world's population, including Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. But one of the main problems of the BRICS countries in expanding relations and strengthening their position is the small number of members and the geographical distance of the member countries of this group. The BRICS group symbolizes the imbalance created by…
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The UAE and the Israel; Two decades of cooperation
20
Jul
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The UAE and the Israel; Two decades of cooperation

PEJOURNAL - The series of events and developments in the last two decades in the UAE show that this government has sought to normalize relations with the Israeli regime and during this time has tried to involve its allies in this field. The UAE did not even wait for the Zionist regime to agree to the Arab leaders' peace plan at the Beirut summit, and began its relations with the regime in this direction, which accelerated with the beginning of the coronation of "Mohammad Benzayed". The first official visit of Zionist officials to the UAE took place in 2003, when…
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Israel provided military information of Azerbaijan to Armenia
19
Jul
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Israel provided military information of Azerbaijan to Armenia

PEJOURNAL - An expert on Eurasia said about the reasons for the border tensions between the Republic of Azerbaijan and Armenia: "First of all, it should be said that this conflict, unlike the previous conflicts, did not take place in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, but outside it." The cause of the conflict goes back to the differences between the two countries in the past. There has always been an exchange of fire due to very small conflicts or minor tensions between the two countries. In response to the question why these conflicts between the two countries have increased in…
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Atlantic Council: No, Iran isn’t going to be a Chinese client state
17
Jul
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Atlantic Council: No, Iran isn’t going to be a Chinese client state

PEJOURNAL - Iran is in the process of finalizing an agreement with China, cementing an arrangement to sell crude oil to the world’s second largest economy for the next twenty-five years. The deal drew attention within Iran after the eighteen-page “Iran-China 25-year Comprehensive Partnership Document” was leaked, prompting comments that the Iranian government had sold its country out as a “client state” of China. The price? Up to $400 billion in installments spread over a quarter of a century. The characterization is not unique to Iran’s case. Iraq, which exports one hundred thousand barrels of crude oil to China each…
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Alexey Mukhin* : Interest Groups to Fight against New Law in Russia
17
Jul
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Alexey Mukhin* : Interest Groups to Fight against New Law in Russia

BY: Yasser Nazifi Gilavan and Damir Nazarov PEJOURNAL - The recently approved changes in the Russian Constitution will not be implemented easily, as those whose influences are threatened will show resistance, a renowned political scientist told ISCA News. Russian constitutional reforms – in total, over 200 changes - including an amendment that allows President Vladimir Putin to potentially remain in power until 2036, won almost 78 percent of the votes in a week-long referendum from June 25 to July 01. To touch upon the recent developments in the largest country of the world, The ISCA News had an interview with…
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Jul
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Belt and Road Initiative

BY: Robert David Kaplan PEJOURNAL - The Belt and Road Initiative ( BRI ), formerly known as One Belt One Road, is a global development strategy adopted by the Chinese government in 2013 involving infrastructure development and investments in nearly 70 countries and international organizations. Amid news around 25-year agreement between Iran and China, that links East and West of Asia together and it seems to be a core point in BRI, Robert D Kaplan explains the function and possibilities of this initiative here in this video. He is an American writer and Geopolitician. Kaplan was a Senior Fellow at…
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Reuters: FBI is leading an inquiry into the Twitter hack
16
Jul
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Reuters: FBI is leading an inquiry into the Twitter hack

PEJOURNAL - The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is leading a federal inquiry into the Twitter hacking, two sources familiar with the situation said to Reuters, after hackers seized control of accounts belonging to Joe Biden, Kim Kardashian and others in what appeared to be a bitcoin scam. Earlier the FBI had said: “We are aware of today’s security incident involving several Twitter accounts belonging to high profile individuals. The accounts appear to have been compromised in order to perpetuate cryptocurrency fraud.” The FBI’s San Francisco division is leading this inquiry into the Twitter hacking, as more Washington lawmakers called…
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Foreign Policy: The Pandemic Could Be the Crisis Liberalism Needed
14
Jul
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Foreign Policy: The Pandemic Could Be the Crisis Liberalism Needed

BY: Matt Warner* , Tom G. Palmer* PEJOURNAL - The world may be reaching a dangerous inflection point for liberalism. According to the latest reports from Freedom House, over the last 15 years the share of unfree countries in the world has risen while the share of free countries has dropped. Today, government deficits are spiking in response to the public’s demand for intervention to mitigate the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, and some warn that authoritarian leaders are seizing the opportunity to expand their control. Still, this may be a time when liberalism starts to gain ground, not…
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