Global Order
Hypocrisy is not a four letter word
A South African court banned the President of Sudan Omar Al-Bashir from leaving the country after he had come to attend the African Union...
Tackling inequality is key to the post-MDGs development agenda
Fairness and equal opportunity are vital to rich and developing countries alike, warns Jan Vandemoortele, who was among the architects of the UN’s Millennium...
Impotent leadership at the United Nations
The United Nations, an organization of governments created in 1945 following World War II, was meant to foster international cooperation between members and prevent...
Forces that Create Refugees and Migrants
Current refugee-migrant flows (from Burma and Bangladesh toward Thailand and Malaysia and across the Mediterranean from Africa and the Middle East toward Europe) have...
Azerbaijan: What awaits beyond sticks and carrots
The country`s power in international relations rests upon various things and the principal distinction into hard and soft power displays particular means to influence...
US-Russia Redux: The Problem with Intellectual Insincerity
There are numerous intellectual sources, from think tanks to governmental agencies, both in the United States and Russia, which are deeply concerned about the...
The Legal Status of the Caspian Sea
The Legal Status of the Caspian Sea- Current Challenges and Prospects for Future Development, Barbara Janusz- Pawletta (Springer- 2015- 176 pages) “Is it possible...
What does it mean to be an emerging power?
This might be a tricky question to ask nowadays, but there are theories that help us understand better the role of emerging powers in...
The BRICS and the Future of Global Order
Stuenkel, Oliver.The BRICS and the Future of Global Order. 1st ed. Lexington Books, 2015. 213pp. In a world in which there is an ever-growing...
NATO and the Russians: Can NATO be Diplomatically Relevant?
One of the biggest obstacles in understanding Russian foreign policy of late for NATO is that it still seems a bit too tied to...