Global Order
The New Arctic Governance
Despite many predictions to the contrary, the Arctic has emerged today as a zone of cooperation. At the core of regional stability and security...
Millennial Summit: Pope Francis’ meeting with Patriarch Kirill
Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, and Patriarch Kirill, Moscow’s and Russia’s Orthodox Patriarch, met in the VIP room of the Havana...
Vatican Diplomacy: Cardinal Parolin
With his ideas and vision, the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, reveals and clarifies the Holy See’s geopolitics. Firstly, as experienced diplomat,...
The geopolitics of North Korea’s nuclear capacity
According to many nuclear experts, the detonation of a hydrogen bomb in the Punggye-ri site, in Kim Jong-Un’s North Korea is not a realistic...
A brief analysis on Global South’s paradigms: Global Governance Case
From scheduled jet airline services to millions of bookings simultaneously around the world, experiencing foreign exchange turnover $3,500 billion in a daily basis, a...
The Genocide Convention: An Unused but not Forgotten Standard of World Law
9 December is the anniversary of the 1948 Convention on Genocide, signed at the UN General Assembly held in 1948 in Paris. The Genocide...
Baby Steps: Trying to Reach Nuclear Global Zero
Non-nuclear weapon states have become increasingly disgruntled over what they perceive as the nuclear weapon states’ unwillingness to seriously commit to nuclear disarmament. ...
A Disturbing Double-Standard:A Human Rights Criticism of the JCPOA
Critics of capital punishment have long claimed that the utilization of such measures are inhumane and disregard certain human rights. One state at the...
Refugee Capitalism: A Mess of Moral Convenience and Ruthless Politics
The Syrian refugee crisis has clearly displayed the difficulties of Western societies to accept culturally and religiously different peoples in the wake of regional...
Why do we need strong United Nations?
“The 70th anniversary of the United Nations is an opportunity to reflect – to look back on the UN’s history and take stock of...