The Axis of Russia, Iran, and China: Birth of a New World Order?
Five months after the 9/11 attacks, US President George W. Bush asserted his acrid perception of the enemies of the United States by introducing...
Mikhail Bogdanov’s Passion for Africa and the Critical Russia’s Policy Debates -Part 1
Russian Presidential Special Representative for Middle East and Africa, Mikhail Bogdanov, in an April interview to Interfax news agency, offered an insight into aspects...
Behind President Putin’s visit to Iran
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s upcoming visit to Iran (July 19, 2022), will be his second visit overseas after his visit to Tajikistan and Turkmenistan...
Tokayev’s Second Republic and its future
Since Tokayev’s assumption of presidential office in March 2019 and election in June the same year, there have not been many changes so far,...
Who is cutting ties with whom? Russia and the Bologna education system
On June 6th, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education Dmitry Afanasyevsaid that all Russian educational organizations were excluded from the Bologna process. Thus, Russia stops using the Bologna...
Vladimir Putin’s Aggression Against Ukraine has thrown China’s Policy in a Geo-political Quagmire
Authors: Stephen Nagy and Phar Kim Beng, PhD*
Wielded by diplomatic practitioners to close the scholars' gap with the rest. foreign policy is the manifestation...
Why We Need to Acknowledge Russia’s Security Concerns
At the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the United States was able to avoid nuclear war over the placement in Cuba...
In the Aftermath of Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Victory without Peace or Peace without Victory?
Little did Putin from last year would have anticipated that victory would virtually be absent on Victory Day 2022 – domestically, no triumph from...
Contesting Russia requires renewed US engagement in Central Asia
When US Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III declared that Washington wanted to see Russia so “weakened" that it would no longer be able...
A Clash of Civilisations: the Russian vs. the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Russia and the Nordic countries’ pavilions at this year’s Venice Biennale, the world’s most prestigious art exhibition, project two different concepts of civilisation, nationalism,...