Turkmenistan: 15 years of kleptocracy
Almost 15 years on from coming to power, President Berdymukhamedov shows no apparent interest in opening up Turkmenistan to foreign investors or improving the conditions for his people, instead presiding…
Addressing the climate emergency while staying competitive
Global emissions must fall by around 50 per cent by 2030 in order to keep the 1.5-degree target of the Paris Agreement within reach. How can Nordic and British solutions help…
Social safety nets in the MENA: Through COVID-19 and beyond
Social safety nets (SSNs) in countries across the MENA region historically focus on inequitable blanket subsidies which provide affordable access to food and fuel for populations, setting aside citizens’ specific and targeted…
The future of liberal democracies: In conversation with William Hague and Hillary Clinton
The Future of Liberal Democracies is a series of events that Chatham House has developed in cooperation with the Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP. Since 1920, Chatham House has made…
Invisible Inequality In Latin America :“The Poor Wants To Remain Poor, I Think That That´S The Point.”
Views: 10 Inequality in Latin America has several peculiarities. Inequality is a persistent character, which has its roots in the colonial time and finds continuity in the subsequent construction and…
Perspectives from the field: Self-defence groups as a force for community resilience
Views: 59 Journal of Conflict Transformation & Security RESEARCH ARTICLE JCTS Volume 7, Number 1, 2019 Perspectives from the field: Self-defence groups as a force for community resilience* Martha Angélica…
A Specter is Haunting the West (?): The BRICS and the Future of Global Governance
Views: 65 RESEARCH ARTICLE …
The Foreign Policy Decision Making Approaches and Their Applications
Views: 444 RESEARCH ARTICLE …
The Death of Osama Bin Laden: Islamophobia Goes to America
Views: 12 It was a bullet that killed a terrorist and revived a presidency. On the morning of May the second 2011, the world woke up to the breaking news…
21st Century Challenges to American Democracy: Part 2
Views: 17 Rising Public Debt, Dwindling Democracy. Conservatives attribute the rising public debt to government spending on costly entitlement and social programs. They conclude that deficit financing for entitlement and…
President Trump’s foreign policy dystopia
Views: 24 After over three decades of living in the United States, one thing that I have learned is never to assume that I understand American domestic politics. Every time…
Brazil’s Presidential Election: Impacts on Relations with Turkey
Views: 6 Millions of Brazilians went to the polls on Oct. 5 to elect the new president of Brazil. There were three frontrunner candidates: Dilma Rousseff, the incumbent and the…