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June 7, 2011

Rwanda
A Conversation with Paul Kagame

Paul Kagame, president of the Republic of Rwanda, discusses Rwanda's domestic and foreign policies, as well as the dire need for a stronger energy infrastructure.

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August 24, 2017

Thailand
Thailand’s Enforced Calm Could Collapse After Yingluck Trial

On Friday, former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra will hear the verdict in her trial over allegedly neglecting management of a massive rice subsidy plan. She oversaw the rice subsidy during h…

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Blog Post by Joshua Kurlantzick Asia Unbound

February 26, 2010

Thailand
Report from Thailand: Thaksin’s Return?

As a stay this week in Chiang Mai has shown me, Thaksin Shinawatra, the former Thai prime minister forced out by a coup in 2006, isn’t going away as a political force. Chiang Mai and the North are Th…

Blog Post by Joshua Kurlantzick Asia Unbound

November 1, 2013

Turkey
Weekend Reading: Egypt’s Al-Azhar, Syria’s Refugees, and Turkey’s Chinese Missiles

Mai Shams El-Din looks at clashes between the military and the Muslim Brotherhood from the angle of al-Azhar, where the student body supports the Brotherhood but the leadership allies with the state…

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

September 21, 2023

Malaysia
A Conversation With Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim of Malaysia

RUBIN: OK. (Laughs.) Good afternoon. I’m Bob Rubin. I’m co-chair emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. And it is my enormous privilege to welcome an old personal friend to the Council today, …

Play Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim at the general assembly of the People’s Justice Party.
Virtual Event by Anwar Ibrahim, Mariko Silver, and Robert E. Rubin

November 7, 2017

Saudi Arabia
Oil and a More Muscular Saudi Arabia

Saudi oil policy is undergoing a significant, yet subtle shift that is likely to have broader, strategic implications. The shift comes in the wake of a perfect storm of complicated existential threat…

Investors talk with each other as they monitor a screen displaying stock information at the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia June 29, 2016.
Blog Post by Amy M. Jaffe Energy Realpolitik