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As the nominee to serve as the EU's next High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell will have an opportunity to update Europe's approach to foreign policy. Chief among the challenges facing the bloc is to reassert its own sovereignty in an age of great-power politics.
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Russia's Failure to Reform PS25 Russia's Failure to Reform
Aug 30, 1999To commemorate its founding 25 years ago, PS will be republishing over the coming months a selection of commentaries written since 1994.
In the following commentary from 1999, Jeffrey Sachs argues that only new, honest, and democratic leadership in #Russia, combined with a real Western commitment to help, could hope to correct the country’s perilous political and economic situation.
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Russia's Failure to Reform
Aug 30, 1999
To commemorate its founding 25 years ago, PS will be republishing over the coming months a selection of commentaries written since 1994.
In the following commentary from 1999, Jeffrey Sachs argues that only new, honest, and democratic leadership in #Russia, combined with a real Western commitment to help, could hope to correct the country’s perilous political and economic situation.
Project Syndicate celebrates its 25th anniversary with PS 25, a collection of our hardest-hitting commentaries so far.
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How Africa Measures Up on Governance
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The Case for a World Carbon Bank
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In Praise of Demographic Decline
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Trump’s Art of the Spin
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