Gabrielle Denis

Founded in Bangkok in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. The Southeast Asia Lectures Series organized a conference on 30 November 2017 at McGill University to use this 50th …
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The Eurozone’s imperfect monetary union eats away at the political and social project of the EU as a whole. As inequalities among Member States grow, power imbalances, resentment, and grievances follow. Unless the existing monetary…
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This Sunday, 24 September 2017, about 61.5 million German voters will elect a new Bundestag. Many expect the incumbent Christian Democratic Party (CDU/CSU) Chancellor, Angela Merkel, to win a historic fourth term in power. Merkel’s three…
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“Actions speak louder than words.” This is the rather mundane turn of phrase then-PM David Cameron used at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Warsaw summit in July 2016 to describe the 2017 Enhanced Forward Presence (EFP)…
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Governors' posts in seven provinces, mayors' and regents' in 18 cities, as well as local leaders in 76 districts were at stake in Indonesia’s regional elections on 15 February 2017. However, the contentious race for the Jakarta…
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The establishment of visa-free travel to Belarus for citizens of 80 countries (including European Union Member States as well as the United States) is the latest episode in the ongoing geopolitical struggle opposing Western great powers…
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Paris was well worth a mass in 1593. Is the Elysée palace worth the diffusion of illiberal discourses and a return to social conservatism in 2017? And what are the consequences of this normalization of far-right ideas? As François Fillon,…
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On October 28th, 2016, and after five years of failed negotiations, the 25 members of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) signed an international agreement establishing a Marine Protection…
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Launched in 2013, the negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union entered their 15th round on 3 October 2016. In New York, the EU’s Chief TTIP Negotiator…
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