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Velina Tchakarova
- Jul 14, 2020
- 2 min
Establishing a Far-Reaching Partnership between the EU and India
India and the EU represent two of the world’s largest economies and thus are important players in global economic and trade governance. Currently, the global system reveals an emerging network of regional actors, which seek to navigate the systemic rivalry between the US and China. Following COVID-19, they have a common goal—to play a balancing act between Washington and Beijing without being forced to make the difficult choice of taking sides. Against this background, the EU
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Velina Tchakarova
- Jul 8, 2020
- 1 min
COVID19 and the Indo-Pacific Decade
Great powers rise and fall, shaping each transitional period of global power shift and its geographic concentration. Currently, the world is witnessing a profound transformation in the geopolitical arena of international affairs. For the past years, the pundits have been propagating the emergence of an Asian multipolar century, with a shift from the Atlantic to the Pacific realm. However, following the COVID-19 virus outbreak, this year marks the obvious manifestation of an I
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Velina Tchakarova
- Jul 4, 2020
- 1 min
Cracks in the Trump-Europe relationship are turning into a chasm
CNN article by Luke McGee with my contribution. "However, longstanding observers of the alliance accept it has been strained over the past four years -- and will worsen still if Donald Trump beats former vice president Joe Biden in this year's US election. "Trump considers the EU, especially Germany, an economic and trade rival, which means tensions can be expected in the case he gets a second term," says Velina Tchakarova, from the Austrian Institute for European and Securit
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