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“The Pacto Historico, as a political movement, hopes to tie messages of national unity to social spending and poverty reduction, in what Villanuevas describes as not just a rejection of militarism, “but a social pact with Colombia's citizens.””
Bogota, Nov 22 (EFE).- Colombian former presidential candidate Oscar Ivan Zuluaga once again will pursue the Andean nation’s highest office as the nominee of the ruling conservative Democratic Center party, that political grouping said Monday. Incumbent President Ivan Duque, in office since 2018, is barred from seeking re-election in 2022 due to term limits. “The …
In this node I will attempt to list all of the world's intelligence services. This is an ongoing project. So, here goes: Afghanistan: NSD - National Sec...
Introduction In a speech before the Indian Parliament in 2007, then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe introduced the ‘Confluence of Two Seas’, a precursor to Tokyo’s Indo-Pacific policy framework. It referred to the linking of the Pacific and Indian Oceans to make a ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’; Abe named India as an anchor in such a vision. To be sure, India-Japan relations date back to the decades after the Second World War. Their current partnership is increasingly featured as an important pole in Abe’s book, Utsukushii kuni e (Towards a Beautiful Country: My Vision for Japa...
Intereconomics Biden’s Security Policy: Democratic Security or Democratic Exceptionalism? Forum Biden’s Security Policy: Democratic Security or Democratic Exceptionalism? Simona R. Soare, European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris, France. Can the Biden administration chart a new course for American security policy given the unprecedented level of polarisation and social unrest in the United States? Can the US lead internationally and build a new transatlantic partnership while tackling the layered political, economic and health crises it faces at home? This article examines the...