Today, Vladimir Putin was officially inaugurated as President of the Russian Federation for the fourth time. His inaugural speech contained little new. Russia had upped its defence budget, although against […]
Read MoreChina’s Long-Term Strategy vs The West’s Civil War and Short-Termism While the effectively bankrupt West is tearing itself apart and undermining its society, economy and science, China is not just […]
Read MoreReports and comments on Donald’s Trump’s renewed “tweet storms” after the New Year holidays are as woefully uninformed and emotional as in 2017. The President tweeted that North Korean Leader […]
Read MoreOn Wednesday 25 July 2017, President Trump’s announcement on Twitter that transgender people would be banned from serving in the US military predictably made the headlines. But just days before, […]
Read MoreIn 2009, the second edition of Mark Maslin’s book Global Warming. A Very Short Introduction appeared in the well-known series published by Oxford University Press. According to Maslin’s website, the […]
Read MoreIn the run-up to the G20 meeting under Angela Merkel in Hamburg, U.S. President Donald Trump has come in for the usual round of massive criticism – much of it […]
Read MoreThe last few weeks have seen efforts and rhetoric by NATO members to mollify the U.S. President following Donald Trump’s various remarks during last year’s campaign and following his election […]
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For decades, we have been taking our freedom for granted. But suddenly authoritarian populists are threatening liberal societies worldwide. Time to wake up. Die Zeit, 4 August 2016. *** The […]
Read MoreIan Pryde takes part as Expert Speaker on Yukos Case Round Table at the Energy Arbitration Conference: Challenges and Opportunities for the Next Decade: Lessons from Recent Awards The conference […]
Read MoreBy Ian Pryde and Suzanne Stafford For the Letter to Investors published by the Diamond Age Russia Fund As 2014, an unusually eventful year, drew to a close, Russia was […]
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