Economics & Energy
The Political and Economic Impact of The Coronavirus Pandemic in Turkey
On December 31st, 2019, China officially reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) that it had detected an unknown type…
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Edam Blog
The Day of Reckoning
The end of the Cold War raised hopes for a more peaceful and stable world with the “international community” collectively…
Edam Blog
Confrontation over Hong Kong
In April 2017, President Trump hosted his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for a two-day summit at the Mar-a-Lago estate in…
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Fighting King Covid XIX
Two months ago, underlining the regrettable shallowness of the concept of “international community”, I said that the world now needs…
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“International Community” and the UN System
Some say that after coronavirus passes “nothing will be the same”. Should that prove to be the case, hopefully the…
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Sailing in Uncharted Waters
The Arab Spring threw the Middle East in chaos. Then came the Ukraine conflict and Russia’s annexation of Crimea. As…
Edam Blog
The Moment of Truth for the “International Community”
Mr. Kofi Annan who served as the seventh Secretary General of the UN from January 1997 to December 2006 was…
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2019: The Year in Review
During the past year, climate change, corruption, street protests, polarization and disarray in the West dominated the global agenda. Frequent fires are part of…
Cyber Governance & Digital Democracy
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Conflict
INTRODUCTION It is hard to predict the exact impact and trajectory of technologies enabled by artificial intelligence (AI).1 Yet these technologies…
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NATO at Seventy
Literature on “The Art of Human Survival” will have you believe that to have reached the age of seventy must…