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Carl Bildt

Carl Bildt

Writing for PS since 2009
112 commentaries

Carl Bildt was Sweden’s foreign minister from 2006 to 2014 and prime minister from 1991 to 1994, when he negotiated Sweden’s EU accession. A renowned international diplomat, he served as EU Special Envoy to the Former Yugoslavia, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, UN Special Envoy to the Balkans, and Co-Chairman of the Dayton Peace Conference. He is Co-Chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations. 

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  1. The High Stakes of NATO’s Vilnius Summit
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    The High Stakes of NATO’s Vilnius Summit

    May 17, 2023 Carl Bildt urges the alliance to use its upcoming gathering to correct the mistake it made in Bucharest in 2008.

  2. Why Ukraine Matters
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    Why Ukraine Matters

    Apr 21, 2023 Carl Bildt decries Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's description of the war as a mere "territorial dispute."

  3. Hell in the Holy Land
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    Hell in the Holy Land

    Mar 21, 2023 Carl Bildt fears that the stage is set for another major violent conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

  4. If Russia Had Won
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    If Russia Had Won

    Feb 17, 2023 Carl Bildt considers a counterfactual scenario in which Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine had succeeded.

  5. Post-Putin Possibilities
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    Post-Putin Possibilities

    Jan 18, 2023 Carl Bildt doubts that the Russian leader's ultra-centralized, top-down regime can survive the war he started.

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    Anti-Semitism and Intersectionality

    Slavoj Žižek

    The European Jewish Association’s recent insistence on the exceptional nature of anti-Semitism raises important questions about the nature of privilege and oppression in contemporary societies. The risk is that the EJA’s conceptual framework could all too easily reproduce the very bigotry it seeks to oppose.

     sees problems with efforts to treat hatred toward Jews separately from other forms of bigotry.
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    Not Buying Central Banks’ Favorite Excuse

    Raghuram G. Rajan shows why monetary policymakers must bear some of the blame for the latest banking-sector turmoil.
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    The Lost Liberal Legal Imagination

    Nicholas Reed Langen considers the complicated legacy of a progressive jurist whom conservatives now champion.
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    Saved by the Pandemic?

    Scott Fulford explains why its successful COVID-19 stimulus could help the US forge a path to financial stability for all.
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    How Much Work Is Enough?

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Autumn McDonald explain how the pandemic raised new questions – and some very old ones – for employers and employees.
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    How the Far Left Paves the Way for the Far Right

    Andrés Velasco

    In October 2022, Chileans elected a far-left constitutional convention which produced a text so bizarrely radical that nearly two-thirds of voters rejected it. Now Chileans have elected a new Constitutional Council and put a far-right party in the driver’s seat.

     blames Chilean President Gabriel Boric's coalition for the rapid rise of far right populist José Antonio Kast.
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    Creeping Toward Dystopia

    Robert Skidelsky worries that even elected governments will appropriate emerging technologies in the name of national security.
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    The Climate Loss and Damage Fund Is Coming

    Sameh Shoukry assesses recent efforts to implement a crucial initiative agreed at last year’s UN Climate Change Conference.
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    China’s Youth Unemployment Problem

    Nancy Qian warns that diminishing opportunities for new graduates will have profound long-run macroeconomic implications.

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