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Weekly Briefing: October 31, 2016

Lebanon gets a new president, Bolivia and Peru discuss a trans-continent railway and Theresa May visits India

Eating grass: the India-Pakistan rivalry renewed

India-Pakistan relations are in crisis again. How close to nuclear war will the rivals go?

Weekly Briefing: October 24, 2016

China’s Communist Party plenum, Spain’s political gridlock comes to a head, and OPEC discusses output deal

A ceasefire in Syria: opportunities and ohallenges

After repeated ceasefires failures, we assess the most likely outcomes for the Syrian conflict.

Down and Duterte: shakeup in the South China Sea

The Philippines’ new president is leaning away from America and towards China – is he hedging or is this a marked strategic shift?

Weekly Briefing: October 17, 2016

Continuing protests in Congo, the EC summit, the final US presidential debate and Duterte visits China.

The battle for Burundi: another genocide in the making?

Protests and violence have rocked Burundi, raising the spectre of civil war in the east African country.

Weekly Briefing: October 10, 2016

Monday, October 10 European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee votes on countering foreign disinformation campaigns Eurozone…

Russian cyber activity: a thorny issue for NATO and the US

Difficult to trace and easy to perpetrate, cyber espionage is set to become a crucial tool to achieve a vast array of foreign policy objectives.

Weekly Briefing: October 3, 2016

Donors meet to discuss Afghan development, the UK Tory Party’s conference wraps up and the second presidential debate