Soon a thing of the past: The first generation of BRIC leaders When President Lula, Prime Minister Medvedev, Manmohan Singh and Hu Jintao met...
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Kari Lipschutz | 30 Jun 2010 A 2008 visa-free travel agreement between Russia and Brazil came into effect earlier this month, spurring tourism and...
The contrast could hardly have been starker. The Folha de São Paulo’s headline proudly read “Amorim announces nuclear deal with...
EU Observer, May 12, 2010 JOEL SANDHU AND OLIVER STUENKEL EUOBSERVER / COMMENT – As strategic partners, EU-India relations ought to be...
China does not seek to overthrow today’s global order, but hopes that it will turn into a “responsible stakeholder”, especially...
Is the world unipolar, multipolar, or nonpolar? It depends whom you ask. But apparently, it may depend even more on where you ask, for...
As the world finds itself in transition from a unipolar, US-dominated system to a multipolar structure with several poles, there is a widespread...
When Dilma Rousseff was chosen as the Workers’ Party’s candidate for this year’s presidential elections during the party’s...
Despite a large-scale marketing campaign prior to its launch, ticket discounts, and a sophisticated strategy to show the movie from trucks in areas...
As Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad annouced to the world that his country would step up its uranium production, the response by the established...
While it is difficult to know what exactly will happen in international politics in 2010, we can predict what the key issues are that will...
December 16, 2009 by Oliver Stuenkel When India’s Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his Brazilian counterpart Guido...
Over the past years, the BRICs’ role in world affairs has been steadily increasing. Nowadays, global summits can no longer claim legitimacy and...
Brazil’s President Lula is a lucky man. With an approval rating north of 80% in his seventh year in office and a booming economy, Lula has the luxury...
by Oliver Stuenkel Like previous summits, the G8 summit in Italy this week was tinged by the host’s culture and personal taste. George W Bush...
Published by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, June 15, 2009 Oliver Stuenkel “Our age has stolen the fire from the Gods. Can we confine it to peaceful...