Drones and transport could reshape Eurasian geopolitics
When US intelligence asserted that Iran was selling hundreds of combat drones to Russia, it was signalling more than Iranian support for Vladimir Putin’s...
Toward a China-Russia axis?
China and Russia spent the last decade strengthening their mutual trade, political and military ties, developing energy infrastructure in Russian territory and uninterruptedly consolidating...
Russia Struggles to Appear On Africa’s Horizon
As popularly known to African leaders, Russia has thousands of decade-old undelivered pledges and several bilateral agreements signed with individual countries, yet to be...
Escaping a bear hug: Kazakhstan seeks closer ties to US and Europe
Eight years ago, Kazakh shrugged off Russian President Vladimir Putin's remarks suggesting he could pull a Ukraine on Kazakhstan. They did so again in...
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...