Eurasian Heart of Gold
What is the impact of Kumtor on Kyrgyzstan’s Gold Mining Sector? Nationalization talks have started again in Kyrgyzstan about the ownership...
After Paris: Codes of Tolerance as the Bridge
The slaughter of 17 people in the past week in Paris marks a dark era in Europe in the relationship between European Muslims and...
The Paris Killings: Who Are the Real Heroes of Press Freedom?
In the wake of the terrorist assault last week on the offices of the French magazine “Charlie Hebdo,” in which 12 persons were killed,...
Denazification – urgently needed in Europe
There is a claim constantly circulating the EU: ‘multiculturalism is dead in Europe’. Dead or maybe d(r)ead?... That much comes from a cluster of...
Building strategic trust for peace, cooperation and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region
At the outset, I would like to express my sincere thanks to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong our Singaporean host, Dr. John Chipman and...
NATO Wraps Up its Flag from Afghanistan
History is a fine mirror, particularly among the war opponents where ‘cognitive dissonance’ plagued them deep all along. Thirteen years ago, US pre-attack psy-warfare...
The grand strategy of Xi Jinping
China spent much of 2014 seeking to revive a concept that Japan proclaimed seven decades ago, when it was an imperial power seeking to...
THE ASIAN SQUARE DANCE – PART IV
Japan’s population of 127 million, of which nearly a quarter is over 65, is on a long-term downward trend, and is expected to lose...
The New EU Voting system – the old west-east north-south division
Economic governance reforms and Eurozone consolidation has significant institutional and political consequences: a multiple-tier integration is ever more realistic. „Out” countries seek to mitigate...
The Asian Square Dance – Part III
India is the world’s largest democracy, and one of the few legitimate democracies in Asia showing that, contrary to statements of certain pundits, that...