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BI Intelligence This is a preview of a research report from BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence, click here. Cross-border e-commerce is widely expected to be a key growth engine for the global e-commerce industry in the coming years, thanks to a convergence of consumer and market trends. Major […]
Pool/Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin is not a classic Russian ruler. He is something new. Like most despots, Putin fears his own people, and projects intense nationalism and anti-Western sentiment to rally up supporters and consolidate his own power. By latching on to anti-American and anti-Western rhetoric, Putin has a convenient enemy, which lets […]
AP Photo/Kin Cheung Last month, a man was arrested in the Philippines for refusing to stand for the national anthem. China and India have also introduced national-anthem laws in recent years, which penalize citizens who show “disrespect” for the national anthem. The popularity of these national-anthem laws may point to a bigger trend of rising […]
Carolyn Kaster/AP A plurality of US troops viewed President Donald Trump favorably, according to a recent Military Times poll. But there were significant divides within the ranks. A considerable number of respondents also said white nationalism was a significant concern. Nearly one-third of US troops polled by Military Times said they saw white nationalism as […]
President Donald Trump outlined his principles of patriotism in a speech to the American Legion, saying Americans are not defined by their skin color. This after Trump was accused of failing to unequivocally condemn white nationalists in Charlottesville. “We are one people, with one home and one great flag,” Trump addressed the American Legion, which […]
Alexander J. Motyl is a professor of political science at Rutgers University–Newark and an expert on Ukraine. The recent G-20 summit in Hamburg demonstrated two sides of modern-day Germany: the rational cosmopolitanism of Chancellor Angela Merkel and Germany’s political elites, and the irrational anarchism of the country’s extreme left. Noticeably absent? The German extreme right, […]
BI Intelligence This is a preview of a research report from BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence, click here. Cross-border e-commerce is widely expected to be a key growth engine for the global e-commerce industry in the coming years, thanks to a convergence of consumer and market trends. Major […]
London Mayor Sadiq Khan sparked a row in tweets preceding his latest speech by implying Scottish nationalism is akin to racism. He was forced to backpedal after Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, slammed his remarks as “spectacularly ill-judged.” “The last thing we need now is to pit different parts of our country or sections of […]
Rumors of divisions within the White House were either dispelled or proven depending on who was watching, when President Donald Trump’s chief strategist Stephen Bannon and chief of staff Reince Priebus took the stage at CPAC. On Thursday at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Bannon and Priebus sat down with Matt Schlapp, chairman […]
