The Russia-OPEC-America Nexus: Reimagining the Great Oil Game
The geopolitical implication to the sudden fall in oil prices has had broad-reaching ramifications for a number of very powerful countries. Two of those...
Burdens of Tibet
Asia was in 2014 based on the Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (HIIK) Conflict Barometer for 2014 report accounted for the most conflicts...
Exposing Geopolitical Moral Relativism
With all eyes on Iran, the human rights abuses that continue in the repressive country of Turkmenistan have taken a back seat. Despite pressure...
Soft power as a threat to a hard power
2012 was fruitful for Russian legislators and painful for the NGOs. That year marked the series of laws threatening the fragile civil society in...
Kazakhstan & WTO: End of an Odyssey or New Leap Forward?
Kazakhstan applied to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) in January of 1996. Twenty long years later (July 27, 2015), President Nazarbayev signed the...
Danger of undefined territories in the South and East China Sea
The number of disputes has risen over the decades in the region known for dynamic economy, competition, rich waters, possible big oil and gas...
The Rebirth of the Patriarch of Moscow
The Orthodox Church and the Christian tradition have always assumed a role of primary importance in Russian history and tradition. The...
A Glimpse into the Cold War Alliances with Reference to Pakistan’s Case for Kashmir
The post-World War II scenario observed many rapid identical changes which included end of wartime bonhomie developed between the United States and the Soviet...
Simultaneous regional head elections in Indonesia 2015
Indonesia is one of the largest democratic countries in the world. Legislative elections and presidential election 2014 have passed quite well, although there are...
Kazakhstan: United Nations Security Council 2017-2018
Kazakhstan, in an attempt to build its reputation as mediator and the leading country in Central Asia, is seeking a position on the 15-member...