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The biggest developments in Syria in 2016.
If the ceasefire brokered by Russia and Turkey holds, it will be welcomed by most people in Syria - but the odds seem stacked against it.
Netanyahu, Trump, and Putin are part of a dying breed of politicians who seek to preserve realities that are founded in the post-World War II and Cold War realities in which their views were shaped. But the world has moved on from them.
Both China and Russia are led by leaders acting out of the national interest, which should mean that even if President Xi or President Putin will not be able to resolve their differences with President Trump, they will at least speak the same language.
With the 7th conference, Fateh’s mutation from national liberation movement into a party whose primary purpose is institutionalizing its hold on power became complete.
China should not be destabilized by President-elect Trump’s threats of an arms race. Instead, it needs to prioritize its own goal of increasing its retaliatory capability through weapon modernization.
While military and intelligence cooperation between Israel and Egypt has become increasingly close, these ties don’t exist at the people-to-people level.
Trump has undertaken some moves to make his White House one of the most complexly structured in recent memory, one that defies the lessons of past presidencies and increasingly looks like a page out of Trump’s own management past.
Europe has been so weakened by the tumultuous events of 2016 that it is left unprepared to deal with the big foreign policy challenges of 2017.
Until now, India’s strategy has been to globalize at its own pace and resist Western pressures for sweeping reform. If the West turns against globalization, New Delhi will need a lot of new thinking on post-reform economic strategy.