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As part of its 2018 budget, the Trump administration is proposing to reduce by half the size of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a cushion against global price shocks and supply disruptions. The administration said it expects the drawdown to reduce the federal deficit by $16.6 billion, part of a package of deficit reduction measures over the […]
PARIS — It was an 11th-hour surprise that seemed to offer final proof of how closely this weekend’s critical French election mirrored the high-stakes American contest last fall. And yet the reaction couldn’t have been more different. A centrist candidate who embraced globalization was facing off against a populist, anti-immigrant firebrand who spoke warmly of […]
Terwijl het Westen zijn eigen wereldorde afbreekt, bouwt China die in hoog tempo op. Trump maakt er geen geheim van weinig op te hebben met handelsakkoorden met Aziatische landen (TTP), Noord-Amerika (Nafta) en mogelijk ook met Europa (TTIP). Als Trump het niet doet, worden de onderhandelingen over het trans-Atlantische handelsverdrag mogelijk stilgezet onder druk van […]
In addition to his work for HCSS, Reinier Bergema conducted (independent) research on Dutch jihadist foreign fighters travelling to Syria since the violent escalation of the conflict in 2011, combining both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Part of this research involved the development of a database, including 200+ Dutch jihadists who remain(ed) in Syria and […]
Starting on Sunday 14 May 2017 China hosts leaders from around the world for a 2-day Summit to discuss the “One Belt, One Road” project (OBOR). OBOR, or ‘the New Silk Road’ as it is sometimes called, is a multi-billion dollar initiative to link China with Europe and beyond. Despite all the fanfare, rolling out […]
Gaat president Macron, die naargeestig populistisch nationalisme afwijst, een poging doen om nog iets van de liberale westerse wereldorde overeind te houden? Het zou mij niet verbazen. Die wereldorde van vrijhandel, sterkte instituties en internationaal recht heeft de afgelopen zeven decennia onder Amerikaans leiderschap een relatief stabiele wereld opgeleverd waarin staten met elkaar konden samenwerken […]
In de ogen van sommigen is de wereld simpel. De opwarming van de aarde ziet president Donald J. Trump zo: “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive”. Met andere woorden, het hele idee dat de aarde opwarmt is flauwekul. Dit rechtvaardigt het heropenen […]
The controversial Russian energy project Nord Stream 2 has so far weathered a barrage of political and legal hurdles. But now the project, meant to pipe natural gas from Russia to Germany, has hit another potential snag. And for once it’s not over geopolitics or arcane European Union laws, but rather over the pipeline’s impact […]
Nederland heeft een nationale veiligheidsraad nodig die het binnenlandse en buitenlandse veiligheids- en defensiebeleid bepaalt. De nieuwe raad zou onder leiding moeten staan van de premier. Dat adviseert de WRR, de Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid. Premier Rutte en minister Hennis van Defensie hebben het advies in ontvangst genomen van oud-Justitie-minister Hirsch Ballin. “Als je […]
It was only the latest plot twist in a long, bitter campaign defined by rancor and uncertainty. The day before France’s most momentous presidential election in recent history, authorities were still investigating the “massive and coordinated piracy action” that independent candidate Emmanuel Macron reported just minutes before the campaign’s official end Friday night. The data […]
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