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Street pressures will erode elite cohesion in Cuba

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CUBA

The government is nevertheless shaken. Protests were triggered by severe economic hardship, and reflect a loss of public confidence that the government can improve matters. The…

Egypt import restrictions will benefit elite

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EGYPT

EGYPT: Import restrictions will benefit elite

Lebanese elite leaders may keep an inward focus

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LEBANON

LEBANON: Elite leaders may keep an inward focus

COVID-19 could reconfigure African foreign relations

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AFRICA

Africa COVID-19 diplomacy.

Vietnam anti-graft drive will see elite instabilities

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VIETNAM

Thoa is the latest official to fall in Hanoi’s anti-corruption drive. Thoa reportedly approved Trinh Xuan Thanh’s appointment as PetroVietnam Construction Joint Stock…

Algerian efforts to reduce imports lack conviction

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ALGERIA

The car import debate and dynamics of the social contract.

China’s soft power in Western Europe is declining

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EU/CHINA

The deft application of soft power has cultivated closer relations between China and Europe. However, China's power to persuade or attract is now under threat as public and elite…

Moscow's influence will lag West's in Balkans

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BALKANS/RUSSIA

The vicissitudes of Russian influence in the Balkans.

Weak economy compounds Moldovan political instability

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MOLDOVA

Economic weakness plus popular resentment of an elite seen as corrupt creates potential for mass demonstrations by pro- and anti-EU factions. Russia's importance as an economic…

Ukraine war unlikely to transform EU-UK security ties

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EU/UK

It has required a degree of EU-UK coordination, especially to facilitate the implementation of sanctions imposed on Russia’s economy, leadership and regime-supporting elite…