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This was originally published in December 2020 by Korea National Defense University.
Executive summary
In Burundi the rise of authoritarianism during the post-civil war period fuelled endless political tensions that resulted in intermittent violent but low-intensity conflicts.
Colonel (GS) Laurent Currit, Head of Defence and Diplomacy at the GCSP interviews Dr Jean-Marc Rickli, Head of Global and Emerging Risks at the GCSP as he provides a “Perspective on Global and Emerging Risk.”
The future for Syria in 2021 looks bleak from the Russian perspective. Though the conflict entered a low-intensity phase of armed confrontations that characterised 2020 will likely continue in 2021.
After 10 years of war in Syria, sanctions have yet to achieve their purpose: a change in the behaviour of the Syrian establishment.