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The Good Friday Agreement After Brexit

This past Saturday marked the 23 year anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA), a landmark peace settlement brokered by the United States that ended three decades of insurgent conflict in Northern Ireland, grimly remembered as “The Troubles.” Despite the GFA’s success in reducing violence and promoting power-sharing between Northern Ireland’s Catholic...

Nord Stream 2 and Divisions in the West

When Germany gave refuge to Russian dissident Alexei Navalny last summer following his Kremlin-ordered poisoning, the act was praised as another chapter in chancellor Angela Merkel’s defense of liberal values, and her defiance of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ruthless power politics. On the question of the Nord Stream 2 Baltic pipeline, however, Merkel and Putin...

Renouncing the Reset: U.S.-Russia Relations under President Biden

Much like Middle East peace, improving U.S.-Russia relations has been an elusive goal of presidential diplomacy for decades. President Bush spoke warmly of the trust between himself and Russia’s Vladimir Putin in 2001, President Obama memorably sought a “reset” with Russia in 2009, and the election of President Trump in 2016 engendered hopes of a...
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