The end of Britain as we know it?
Internal divisions are tearing both the US and the UK apart. But while the US will likely swing back to its moderate ways once Trump is gone, the UK will be forever changed post-Brexit, writes Jeremy Kinsman.
Jeremy Kinsman, a Distinguished Fellow of the CIC, has been a long-time addict of US politics, professionally as Minister for Political Affairs at our Embassy in Washington in the 1980s, and more recently as Regent's Lecturer and International Scholar at Berkeley, after serving as Canadian Ambassador in Moscow, Rome, London, and Brussels.
Internal divisions are tearing both the US and the UK apart. But while the US will likely swing back to its moderate ways once Trump is gone, the UK will be forever changed post-Brexit, writes Jeremy Kinsman.
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fizzled this week. Jeremy Kinsman asks if Canada has been playing its cards right and how it might proceed.
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reflects on his own experience and cautions against appearing too eager for an
accord.
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won’t work any more.’
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inspiring a new kind of thinking in Russia.
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and then get on with it, writes Jeremy Kinsman.
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