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24 Nov 2022, 8:07 am by Simon Lester
Russia has invaded Ukraine and threatened the possibility of nuclear conflict, and in the context of Western economic sanctions and counter- sanctions by Russia, threatened to cut off or reduce oil and gas and food supplies to Europe and other countries (despite the fact that Russia and Ukraine had many Golden Arches and similar Western franchises). [read post]
22 Nov 2022, 5:56 am by Jasmin Mujanović
The erosion of the traditional regional primacy of the European Union and the United States has certainly opened the door for new actors to advance their respective interests in this strategically volatile corner of Europe. [read post]
16 Nov 2022, 8:53 am by Carine Kaneza Nantulya
In Ethiopia, regional and federal forces have enjoyed widespread impunity despite imposing an effective siege on the Tigray region, and carrying out an ethnic cleansing campaign against the Tigrayan population in Western Tigray. [read post]
14 Nov 2022, 4:44 am by Emma Snell
Senior Indonesian politicians are calling on Western leaders to make concessions on how far to go in criticizing Russia over the war in Ukraine. [read post]
3 Nov 2022, 11:04 am by Mehari Taddele Maru
The perception of partiality, amidst misinformation campaigns and false declarations of victimization by Ethiopia’s government on one side, and stoic indifference to the suffering of civilians by the Tigrayan regional government on the other, leaves Western diplomacy toothless and ineffective. [read post]
3 Nov 2022, 7:01 am by Kyle Hulehan
Leakage also means costs for American industry and employment, which may be small for the economy in the aggregate but large for specific regions or industries, in particular manufacturing.[6] There are several kinds of carbon leakage.[7] The first, and most politically salient, is the competition channel: carbon taxes raise production costs in the jurisdiction in which they are implemented, leading companies to outsource production to other jurisdictions without a carbon tax or significant… [read post]
31 Oct 2022, 5:33 am by Emma Snell
Explosions have been reported near the capital, Kyiv, and in at least 10 other cities and regions. [read post]
30 Oct 2022, 11:24 am
Pix credit hereThe intervention by Claire Methven O'Brien and Daniel Schönfelder  in Verfassungsblog (VerfBlog, 2022/10/26), A Defining Moment for the UN Business and Human Rights Treaty Process,  merits serious consideration in a now more than half decade process that has been more notable for its strategic political process authoritarianism, and its embrace of a form of Westernized democratic centralism, than for any sort of inclusive, open, and pragmatic… [read post]
13 Oct 2022, 6:05 am by Joseph Margulies
Almost no day passes without a new account in the western press of Ukrainian prisoners who were tortured in nearly every conceivable way. [read post]
11 Oct 2022, 5:16 am by Renee DiResta, John Perrino
It was demonstrably pro-Western, pro-U.S., but there were few clues as to who or which actors were behind the masked activity. [read post]
10 Oct 2022, 2:48 am by INFORRM
The appellant had sought information concerning the Novichok poisonings in Wiltshire from the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust. [read post]
Given the close economic, cultural, and historical ties of the two regions, it makes sense to work together, particularly given the rising international-relations tensions outside of the western sphere. [read post]
5 Oct 2022, 7:00 am by Hassan Shire
Germany is doing the same within the Western Group (and many did so in previous years). [read post]
3 Oct 2022, 12:12 pm by INFORRM
On 14 September 2022, Google’s appeal against a €4.34 billion antitrust fine handed down by the European Union four years ago failed in the General Court, Case T‑604/18. [read post]
3 Oct 2022, 6:45 am by Kristie Bluett
The standoff with the Polish government is one of a series of disputes between backsliding democracies in the region and EU institutions over adherence to the rule of law. [read post]
3 Oct 2022, 4:33 am by Emma Snell
  Ukrainian forces liberated the village of Torske near Lyman in the Donetsk region yesterday, as they inch closer to taking back the Luhansk region, according to the Ukrainian military. [read post]
30 Sep 2022, 5:01 am by Susan Landau
In December 2015, Russian hackers launched a cyberattack that took down three regional electric power distribution networks in western Ukraine, leaving 225,000 people without power for several hours during cold winter conditions. [read post]
30 Sep 2022, 4:13 am by Emma Snell
Long-term commitments are being made to ensure the continued flow of Western weapons to Ukraine. [read post]