Europe
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Is violent revolution becoming inevitable?
‘Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.’ Kennedy, 1962 The political situation in Russia can be defined as very stable. A stable situation in the sense that the power which determines the direction of policy and takes all the important political decisions has remained in the same hands for twelve years [...]
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North Koreas New Hope? Jong-Un in Negotiations
Not months after the death of his father, Kim Jong-Un is apparently making moves to repair ties to the world… but for what purpose
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All Action and Little Talk
Once again IPR visits the topic of the current Iranian nuclear tensions
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Where Three Nations Meet
The great mountainous area of Kashmir has always been stuck in the middle. The region, for the first part of its history, enjoyed a great deal of seclusion from the outside world, and served as a mixing pot of Buddhist, Hindu and later Muslim peoples. However, as the large empires of the 19th century encroached [...]
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Investment Report: Cambodia
Local, smaller, work-intensive investments see handsome returns
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A Rock and a Hard Place, Israels Response to Iran
As tensions between Iran, Israel and the United States ratchet up heading in the direction of conflict, Israel finds itself in a tight situation
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The Economic and Social Cost of Japan’s Most Recent Disaster
after the earthquake and tsunami in Tōhoku, rebuilding is carrying on at a breakneck pace, what is harder to address is the social cost…
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B-razil R-ussia I-ndia C-hina…The New Inner Circle?
Are the leaner, hungrier rapidly growing economies emerging from the global south aligned enough to eclipse the ‘West’?
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Iran’s Nuclear Program: Bane of the West’s Existence
The world is at the edge of a diplomatic crisis; will it be war? Will Western sanctions prevail? Just how determined is Iran?
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