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War and Peace would be a better book at half the length. Not because it’s ponderous it isn’t (on the contrary, it really is a literary tour de force from beginning to end, making its length one of its charms), but because everyone always talks about how long it is, and no one ever talks about the point Tolstoy was trying to make in the telling of the tale. A pity, as the message he was trying to convey is perhaps more relevant to us today than ever before.
The thrust of his argument is that events are not driven by the will-to-power of certain individuals. Rather, everyone, from the lowest in society all the way up to Napoleon himself, is being carried along on a tide of circumstances. All they can do, all any of us can do, is play out our scene as it comes to us.
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UN United Nations : Secretary-General Appoints Joanna Wronecka of Poland Special Coordinator for Lebanon
04/01/2021 | 02:12pm EDT
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Required fields United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Joanna Wronecka of Poland as his new Special Coordinator for Lebanon, with the United Nations Office of the Special Coordinator for Lebanon. Ms. Wronecka succeeds Ján Kubiš of Slovakia to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for his commitment and leadership. Ms. Wronecka brings over 25 years of experience in diplomacy, international security and Middle East affairs, serving since 2017 as the Permanent Representative of Poland to the United Nations, including during Poland s tenure on the Security Council (2018-2019), and as Under‑Secretary of State for Arab and African countries, development cooperation and Polish-United Nations relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland (2015-201
TCSA Shares Macroeconomic Governance Insights at High-Level International Symposium
SHENZHEN, China, Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ TCSA participated in the high-level International Symposium: The Post-Covid Era: Redefining and Redesigning the Global Economy Management, hosted by the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee, St. Petersburg State University of Economics, Hamburg Institute of International Economics, and The Frenkel -Zuckerman Institute for Global Economics, February 9
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th, 2021. Marc Uzan, Executive Director of the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee; Mr. Igor Maksimtsev, Rector of St. Petersburg State University of Economics (UNECON); Mr. Henning Voepel, Director of Hamburg Institute for International Economics (HWWI); Mr. Jihad Azour, Director Central Asia and Middle East Department, International Monetary Fund; and Mr. Kairat Kelimbetov, Governor of AIFC, attended the online conference. Constructive and critical questions were proposed during the meeting. Topics