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By Carl Bildt - Sep 23,2017
Travelling through Germany in the run-up to its federal election on September 24, one cannot help but be struck by the lingering signs of profound trauma from the 2015 refugee crisis.Suddenly and virtually without warning, nearly a million desperate people — mostly Syrians fleein
By Carl Bildt - Jul 29,2017
We are now in the final days of the industrial age.Just as the second generation of steam engines propelled the Industrial Revolution forward, so, too, are new technologies advancing today’s digital revolution.But as technology races ahead of us, it is difficult to anticipate wha
By Carl Bildt - Nov 14,2016
Angry American voters who feel slighted by the Washington establishment have had their say. A stunned world must now come to terms with what the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States means for global stability in the years ahead.The world has so
By Carl Bildt - Oct 27,2016
We are living in dangerous and uncertain times.
By Carl Bildt - Sep 21,2016
Next year marks the centennial of the Balfour Declaration, the British statement that paved the way for Israel’s founding in 1948, and for the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, as well as the larger Arab world, that continues today.Despite all the Middle East’s other —
By Carl Bildt - May 04,2016
Muscular language has become increasingly prevalent in the debate about how to counter the threat of jihadist terrorism.Television talk-show hosts speculate about when control of Raqqa in Syria or Mosul in Iraq might be wrested from Daesh, implying that these cities’ liberation w
By Carl Bildt - Feb 06,2016
Something seems to have gone wrong with politics in the West.In the United States, the billionaire tycoon and reality-TV star Donald Trump seems set to win the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.And throughout Europe, populism in one guise or another is running rampant.We
By Carl Bildt - Jan 05,2016
The roots of the Middle East’s many conflicts lie in the unravelling of the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 20th century and the failure since then to forge a stable regional order.As the international community works towards securing a durable peace in the region, its lea
By Carl Bildt - Jan 01,2016
As the European Union prepares to enter the new year, it faces an almost perfect storm of political challenges.The strategy it used in the past — barely muddling through a series of calamities — may no longer be enough.Of course, the EU is no stranger to crisis management.The eur
By Carl Bildt - Nov 25,2015
Once upon a time, two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, held summits to reduce the danger of a nuclear war.Today, the summitry is between the US and China, a large part of which is to reduce the dangers of confrontation and conflict in cyberspace.The stakes cou

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