by Nina Schick
The German Interior Minister, Thomas de Maizière is centre-stage in a domestic political storm on the status of Syrian nationals in the on-going refugee crisis. Nina Schick argues that he’s the fall-guy as…
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by M. Behzad Fatmi
It is important to put a definition of democracy in perspective before I make…
by Brad Cabana
It has been just over a month since Russia took the military initiative in Syria. Along with fifty plus combat aircraft and helicopter gunships, Russian naval ships Moskva, Ladny, Pytlivy and Smetlivy…
by Robert Heslop
Martin Schulz has proposed that the European Parliament and the position of President of the European Parliament be given more powers within the EU polity. If this is achieved Schulz hopes that…
by Soumaya Ghannoushi
Sunni Islam is in turmoil. Over the last two decades, it has been in the grip of ferment and fragmentation unprecedented in its long history. After the wave of radicalisation that had swept…
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By Saeed Rahnema
Netanyahu did have Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, disgraced former Iranian President, who with the support of Khamenei,…
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by Pepe Escobar
So what is the Obama administration really up to in Iran? What sort of strategic calculations have led to…
by Annika Hedberg
In September 2015, Gazprom and major European energy companies (Germany's E.ON and BASF/Wintershall, Austria's OMV, France’s ENGIE and Royal Dutch Shell) signed an agreement to double the Nord Stream gas pipeline’s capacity by…
by Daniel Fiott
Technology is a means to end. It can serve as a deterrent, greatly alter the balance of power on a battlefield and it can offer a political buy-in in military alliances. For European…
by Ben McPherson
With the United States adding one of Gazprom's biggest gas fields to its Russian sanctions blacklist, the Russian gas giant’s woes have been aggravated. The future of its numerous global pipeline projects could…