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EU foreign policy should build on diplomacy

12/14/2016. Deputees advocate a more realistic strategy on Russia and a “less for less” policy towards countries that try to throw democracy into reverse.

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Is Israel Abandoning a Two-State Solution?

12/28/2016. Over the past week, differences between Israel and the United States have boiled over into a scalding diplomatic confrontation between these closest of allies.

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The Guardian view on the Arab spring: it could happen again

02/01/2017. The Arab world is home to 5% of the global population, but accounts for half of all terrorist attacks. With poverty outpacing the growth in numbers of young people and democracy crushed, a revolt could re-emerge.

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Conference on Safeguarding Endangered Cultural Heritage

12/03/2016. That visit provided an opportunity to begin the reconstruction and restoration process of the Timbuktu mausoleums, but also to begin international discussions.

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New UN chief Guterres pledges to make 2017 'a year for peace'

01/01/2017. On his first day at the helm of the United Nations, Secretary-General António Guterres today pledged to make 2017 a year for peace.

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Syria, Ukraine, and the Failure of Western Diplomacy

12/08/2016. December has been a busy month in Europe. NATO foreign ministers met in Brussels on December 6 and 7. The agenda: Ukraine and Afghanistan. The S-word (Syria) barely got a look-in.

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The End of the Anglo-American Order

11/30/2016. For decades, the United States and Britain’s vision of democracy and freedom defined the postwar world. What will happen in an age of Donald Trump and Nigel Farage?

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The crisis of multilateralism and the future of humanitarian action

11/30/2016. "The crisis consists precisely in the fact  that the old is dying and the new cannot  be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.'

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An experienced practitioner addresses today's unprecedented challenges

April 2016. Kelley Clements, deputy high commissionerfor refugees

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Humanitarian diplomacy today

10/15/2016. Peter Maurer, President of the ICRC

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