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Syria’s future: the losers and winners

In Syria alone, the civil war has killed more than 270,000 people; out of a population of 20 million, nearly 5 million have emigrated and another 7 million have been displaced (source: macpixxel for GIS)

29.03.2016

For all the confusion about Syria’s civil war, there’s no doubt about the big loser – the Syrian people. But nearly every regional power that has intervened to advance its own interests has also paid a heavy price, as has the European Union, a not-so-innocent bystander. For now, the most likely winners are the former Cold War antagonists, the United States and Russ...

Dr. Samir Nassif

DEFENSE

China’s overseas coal investments challenge climate goals

Though China’s coal power plant investments have focused on South and Southeast Asian countries, they are now popping up throughout Africa, East Asia, Central Asia, Eastern Europe and even Latin America (source: macpixxel for GIS)

23.03.2016

In recent years, rich Western countries and international financial institutions have adopted policies to restrict the construction of new coal power plants overseas. However, China has now risen to become the largest global provider of public financing for such projects – and is powering full steam ahead. Though they contradict Beijing’s global climate obligations...

Dr. Frank Umbach

ENERGY

Kim making a monkey out of China in the Year of the Monkey

March 4, 2016: Supreme leader Kim Jong-un (C) runs a joint drill of military units at an undisclosed location in North Korea (source: dpa)

08.03.2016

The Chinese government must have expected that its trouble-bag of an ally, North Korea’s strongman Kim Jong-un, would pull some attention-grabbing stunt on the occasion of the Chinese and Korean New Year, which started on February 8 this year. Perhaps that was the reason why Wu Dawei, the Chinese foreign ministry special representative for Korean Peninsula affairs,...

Kati Kang

POLITICS

Global Trends: back to the future in the Middle East

Geneva, Feb. 2, 2016: Salem al-Meslet (R), spokesman of the main Syrian opposition bloc, kisses a banner with pictures of Syrian war victims in front of the United Nations’ European headquarters, the site of indirect peace talks (source: dpa)

11.02.2016

Middle Eastern disputes have again become flash points for global rivalries – a trend that will accelerate and intensify this year. Shia-Sunni tensions remain central, but they are no longer the sole driver of regional conflict. An evolving face-off between Russia and Europe over the eastern Mediterranean, along with competition for dominance of the great trade and...

Bernard Siman

ECONOMY

Russia’s intervention in Syria shows need for new deal in Middle East

Vienna, Nov. 14, 2015: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L), UN envoy Staffan de Mistura (C) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) at Syrian peace talks (source: dpa)

27.11.2015

What will become of Syria in the medium term? After four years of civil war, it is certainly not possible just to wind the clock back and let President Bashar al-Assad govern as if nothing had happened. But it is equally impossible to imagine a ‘democratic’ and united Syria, because the fracture lines run too deep. It tak...

Charles Millon

POLITICS

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