by Marco Giuli
Russia is not a new player in the energy sector of the MENA (Middle East and Northern Africa) region. However, its nuclear energy diplomacy in the region received a further impetus in the…
by Vít Novotný
The 2010s are becoming a decade of geopolitical paradoxes, even tectonic shifts. Donald Trump’s electoral victory may create a new and outrageous alliance between the US and Russia at the expense of the…
W hen Mine Gencel Bek and I had met - out of coincidence - in Boston in the autumn of 2014, we had no idea we would find ourselves as outcasts, although then we were concerned…
by THOMAS DE WAAL
Twenty-five years after the end of the Soviet Union, a number of separatist conflicts caused by the decline and fall of that state are still painfully unresolved. These conflicts created a series…
Support for international terrorism received a major boost the moment the mullahs hijacked Iran’s 1979 revolution. After a very short-lived period of a so-called open political atmosphere, their thugs organized in the Revolutionary Guards…
by Erik van der Marel
There is a long-standing concern about Europe’s productivity performance, a long-term indicator for sustained economic growth. It is a measure that summarizes how effective we use our economic resources such as…
by ULRICH KÜHN
The incoming Trump administration inherits a U.S.-Russian relationship marked by disagreement and confrontation in the wake of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, the wars in Syria and Ukraine, the West’s use of economic sanctions,…
by Yavuz Baydar
'When universal values and international law are cast aside, global affairs are governed by force.'
This powerful remark printed at the end of a long, detailed report by Freedom House (FH)…
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by Donya Jam
Majority of governments around the globe recognize the regime of Iran as one of the most state…
T urkey is grappling with a series of massive deadly terrorist attacks that are not random or coincidental. The government’s wrong and illegal investment in and bad strategy regarding salafi-jihadist terrorist groups has created…