The End of an Era: Angela Merkel - German Foreign Policy Part II
In 2018, Angela Merkel was named the fourth most powerful person in the world by Forbes magazine, following after Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, and in 2019 the most powerful woman in the world.
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The Population-Centric COIN
COIN is a specific way of doing counterinsurgency that excludes the use of brute force against civilians. he doctrine of counter-insurgency or COIN had been rediscovered around 2006 by the American military as a tool to rescue the failing Iraq and Afghanistan occupations.
Washington’s Commitment to Kosovo
U.S. President Donald Trump held a trilateral meeting with leaders of Serbia and Kosovo in the Oval Office on September the 4th. “I am pleased to announce a truly historic commitment, Serbia and Kosovo have each committed to economic normalization,” Trump said in the press conference with Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti and Serbia's president Aleksandar Vučić.
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