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Asian economies

New cross-border competition policy

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by Yasuyuki Sawada
by Cyn-Young Park
by Hans Dembowski

Environment

The Turtles of Tripoli

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by Moutaz Ali

Egypt

Grand Neom vision is unrealistic, but politically useful

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by Hans Dembowski
A strong voice for pan-African interests: Kagame addressing the UN in September 2017.

African Union

Wrong chairman

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by Hans Dembowski
More and more Iranian women take off their headscarves and wave it around on a stick like the “girl from Enghelab Street” did.

Civil society

Third point of view

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by Katja Dombrowski

Armed conflict

The distance between war and peace

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by Nawar Almir Ali
The British coast guard vessel HMC Protector – pictured in the port of Catania in Sicily – supported Frontex operations in 2017.

Frontex

Securing EU borders

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by Oliver Harry Gerson
Many refugees reach Europe from Africa by crossing the Mediterranean. One of Frontex’s tasks is to prevent them from doing so.

Frontex

Coast guard or paramilitary force?

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by Oliver Harry Gerson
Camp Castor in Northern Mali: German and Dutch soldiers are stationed apart from other troops.

G5 Sahel Joint Force

Pulling together

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by Julia Maria Egleder
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