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Global
Global dynamics, power relations, economic transformation and transnational issues.
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Overview
The Global section examines developments that extend beyond individual regions and transform the international system as a whole. It covers power relations, economic change, international institutions, trade flows, technological transformation, environmental challenges and transnational crises. Its purpose is to place in perspective the interdependencies connecting states, markets and societies.
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Russian Oil: Washington Targets the Buyers
Un baril de pétrole russe acheté par une raffinerie asiatique pourrait bientôt peser sur les conditions d’accès de son pays au marché américain.
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GlobalBRICS: The Bloc That Does Not Need to Be United
BRICS is often discussed through a spectacular question: can it overturn the Western-dominated international order? The question may be the wrong one.
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GlobalSaudi Arabia: Yanbu shutdown begins to redirect European oil flows
The risk had so far remained concentrated in infrastructure. It is now appearing in cargoes.
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GlobalThe International Justice System: Who Judges the World?
There are judges capable of ruling against states, prosecutors who can seek the arrest of heads of government, tribunals that can settle maritime boundaries or order reparations after a conflict. There are even legal rules defining the gravest crimes humanity can commit. Yet ther
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GlobalGlobal Trends: One Planet, Diverging Trajectories
Demographics, urbanization, energy, trade, technology, resources, climate, migration and rearmament are transforming the global system simultaneously. These forces are global. Their effects are not. Behind the world's headline indicators lies an increasingly differentiated landscape, in which every region enters the next decade with profoundly different constraints, resources and trajectories.
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GlobalWho Controls the Seas?
Maritime power is not measured solely by the number of aircraft carriers a country possesses. It also resides in merchant fleets, straits, ports, flags, insurers, submarine cables and the rules that allow global trade to move. No one controls the oceans outright — yet their functioning depends on a surprisingly small number of actors and chokepoints.
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GlobalThe World Economic Forum: A Laboratory of Ideas or a Symbol of Contested Global Governance?
Every year, the annual meeting in Davos brings together heads of state, business leaders, international organizations, academics, and representatives of civil society. For a few days, the World Economic Forum (WEF) becomes one of the world's leading platforms for discussing globa