Center for European Policy Analysis: Dirty Deals - Borders
August 19, 2025
August 19, 2025
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis posted the following commentary on Aug. 18, 2025:
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Dirty Deals: Borders
The use of force to change international frontiers is taboo. Until it isn't.
By Edward Lucas
Remember Goa? The last fragment of Portugal's Indian empire was annexed after a brief military operation in 1961. Few raised even token protests at this exercise of raw power politics. Gained . . .
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Dirty Deals: Borders
The use of force to change international frontiers is taboo. Until it isn't.
By Edward Lucas
Remember Goa? The last fragment of Portugal's Indian empire was annexed after a brief military operation in 1961. Few raised even token protests at this exercise of raw power politics. Gained . . .