Search results for: S. Frederick Starr
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Erdogan’s Approaching Downfall—and a Kurdish Revolution
...On June 7, Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, experienced his first electoral defeat—and a stinging one at that, his Justice and Development party (AKP) losing ten points and its...
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Rethinking North Korea’s Denuclearization: Approaches and Strategies
...The North Korean nuclear issue has become increasingly intractable. The Six Party Talks have stalled since December 2008, while North Korea’s nuclear program has continued apace. On the one...
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Lies and Videotape: Trucks, Weapons and Turkey’s Spiraling Descent
...On June 2, 2015, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called for the editor of Turkey’s oldest newspaper to be sentenced to life in prison after the daily published evidence apparently...
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Central Asia and China’s security policy
...China’s ‘new’ interest in Central Asia is rather a pivot back to Central Asia after two centuries of exclusion during the Russian and Soviet occupation of the region....
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Myanmar’s Fragile Ceasefire
...Resolving Myanmar’s protracted civil war is the country’s defining challenge. With declarations of support signed for a National Ceasefire Agreement, there is much optimism that Myanmar is finally on...
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Going nowhere: Thailand’s coup, one year on
...Today marks one year since the Thai junta came to power in a coup d’état.The move was ostensibly made to save the country from deadly street violence that had...
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China’s Dangerous $5 Trillion Dollar Bet: A South China Sea ADIZ?
...This week the annual report to the U.S. Congress on China’s Military Power was released. It noted Beijing’s use of “low-intensity coercion” across the South China Sea and East...
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After the Deal: The EU and Iran’s Energy Promise
...The EU has played an instrumental role in negotiating the interim agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. Ozan Serdaroglu argues that while the prospective lifting of sanctions under a final...
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Tackling Myanmar’s Corruption Challenge
...Corruption is widespread in Myanmar, and this has significant negative effects on the country’s economic development. In response, President U Thein Sein has made fighting corruption a priority. However,...
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The forgotten peoples of Vietnam’s Wars
...In the second half of the 20th century two of Indochina’s ethnic groups found themselves on the “wrong side of history”. Both supported the US forces in the Vietnam...