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The US president wants separate spheres of influence dominated by the US, China and Russia. For small states, this new world order poses both risks and opportunities.

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YUEN FOONG KHONG is Li Ka Shing Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalization at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of ...

Former political prisoners explain the different ways the dissident movement within the Soviet bloc (1922–1991) took shape.