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Women This Week: Kazakhstan Establishes Women’s Police StationsWelcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers December 2 to December 8.
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Ten Most Significant World Events in 20232023 was a tumultuous year, marked by violent conflicts, democratic erosion, and record-high temperatures. This year, experts at the Council on Foreign Relations, along with visiting world leaders and thinkers, unpacked these issues and more. Join CFR’s director of studies, Jim Lindsay, in looking back at his list of the ten most impactful events of the year.
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Modi’s BharatNet Is Just a Bid for ReelectionModi’s prime ministerial pet project to expand Internet connectivity to rural India is more of an election campaign tool than a substantive effort to improve technological connectivity in rural India.
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Distinguished Fellow for Global Economic Policy and Director of the Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies
Ira A. Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies and National Security and Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program (ON LEAVE)
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CFR Fellows' Book Launch Series: The United States–South Korea Alliance: Why It May Fail and Why It Must Not by Scott A. SnyderThe alliance between the United States and South Korea has endured through seven decades of shifting regional and geopolitical security contexts. In The United States–South Korea Alliance: Why It May Fail and Why It Must Not, Scott A. Snyder details the challenges it now faces from domestic political turmoil in both countries, including deepening political polarization and rising nationalism, which has cast doubt on the alliance’s viability—with critical implications for the balance of power in East Asia. The CFR Fellows’ Book Launch series highlights new books by CFR fellows.
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Colonized Countries Rarely Ask for Redress Over Past Wrongs—The Reasons Can Be ComplexFew former colonies officially press perpetrator states to redress past injustices, largely due to divergent narrative within victim states about how to view past colonial history.
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U.S.-South Korea Policy Coordination on Advanced TechnologyOn November 1, 2023, the Council on Foreign Relations’ program on U.S.-Korea Policy held a virtual workshop on U.S.-South Korea policy coordination toward China on advanced technology.
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The alliance between the United States and South Korea has endured through seven decades of shifting regional and geopolitical security contexts. Yet it now faces challenges from within. Domestic pol… -
The Myanmar Military is Collapsing Amidst Civil War: How Should the United States and Other Countries Prepare?Myanmar’s military is losing its grip on power—the United States and its partners should prepare for potential state collapse.
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Renditions and Extrajudicial Assassinations Increasingly Becoming the Norm in International RelationsGovernments have increasingly employed extrajudicial assassinations to target dissidents.
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Women This Week: South Korean Court Rules in Favor of ‘Comfort Women’Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers November 25 to December 1.
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Cyber Week in Review: December 1, 2023UK, South Korea warn of North Korean hacking; UK, U.S. release AI guidelines; Google DeepMind publishes materials design paper; Okta says October breach larger than previously known; CISA warns of attacks on water utilities.
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It’s Not Deglobalization, It’s RegionalizationDecoupling and derisking, deglobalization, slowbalization, and localization. Journalists, columnists, and more than a few authors are touting the end of an era of hyperglobalization characterized by …
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Ten Anniversaries to Note in 2024As 2023 comes to a close, here are ten notable historical anniversaries to mark in 2024.
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The U.S.–South Korea AllianceIn seventy years, the U.S.-South Korea alliance has evolved from a patron-client relationship to a global comprehensive strategic alliance.
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The Myanmar Army Could Actually Collapse—But Are the United States and Other Powers Ready for Such a Scenario?Myanmar's military has recently suffered a string of defeats—but the U.S. government seems unprepared to face the country's potential state collapse.