Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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For communities around the world, especially in the global south, it’s been clear for decades that the neoliberal “Washington Consensus,” which emerged in the 1980s and focused on deregulation, privatization, austerity, and trade liberalization, was a predatory and destructive model.
Brazil’s position on Russia’s war in Ukraine reveals broader misgivings across the global south about the inclusiveness of the supposedly liberal international order.
What has happened in Israel these many months has shown the power that people possess to safeguard their democracy when threatened.
Since Israel withdrew its troops and settlers from Gaza in 2005 to escape the burdens of an occupation, the Israel Defense Forces have undertaken no less than 15 significant military operations. Indeed, an even more threatening Israeli-Palestinian conflagration looms.
Odessa is a very cosmopolitan city and always prided itself on not being defined by any single nationality. While it has certainly rejected Russia, its place in the new Ukraine is still being negotiated.
Today people are seeing how an allergic reaction to authority and hierarchy leads them to hide power relations behind a series of euphemisms that obscure more than they illuminate.
Some degree of Chinese influence displacing U.S. initiatives is unavoidable, but the United States can leverage individual strength points to collaborate with both Brazil and Mexico.
Until conditions allow for the right combination of elements to help the country reverse course, the United States and the international community must use consistent, behind-the-scenes support to make sure Tunisia does not sink deeper into autocratization.
President Putin’s recent decree, according to which European companies are at risk of losing assets with little or no compensation, will allow the Kremlin to drive new wedges between states and companies in the West.
It will not be possible to arrive at an armistice and stability between Ukraine and Russia without NATO membership.