German MPs have no clue to what happened to the “Berlin patient”
The German government was quick to accuse Moscow of using a poisonous substance ("chemical weapon") against Alexei Navalny, which resulted in additional sanctions being...
Brexit: Going “the extra mile”
Negotiations between London and Brussels on future relations have already been extended beyond all agreed deadlines.
The European Union usually keeps negotiating to the very...
How the EU can help accelerate the implementation of the SDGs internally and worldwide in 2021
Authors: Guillaume Lafortune and Guido Schmidt-Traub*
Earlier this month, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) released the...
Biden and the US policy towards the South Caucasus
Joe Biden’s administration will face multiple foreign policy issues which diminished America’s global position in the last four years. Among them will be a...
Anno Domini 2020: Not Only Covid-19
In a little less than two weeks, the annus horribilis 2020 will (finally!) come to an end. A year that has seen the whole...
The Caspian Sea as Battleground
Populated at the time by fluent Hebrew speakers, the Israel desk of Armenia’s foreign ministry waited back in 1991— in the immediate wake of...
Azerbaijan and Turkey’s genocidal assault against Armenians
From September 27 to November 10, the Armenian Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) in the South Caucasus was exposed to a genocidal assault at the...
RECP, START and Germany´s Indo-Pacific Strategy
There are five interesting events in US-Eurasian relations: First the rejection by the Trump-USA of Putin’s offer to extend the initial START contract by...
Turkey’s Groundless Claims for Greek Islands in the Aegean
Turkey’s expansionism into the waters of the East Mediterranean over the last year rekindled maritime differences with Greece over the delineation of continental shelf...
Russia, Germany (…Europe): the “Big Game” of International Relations opens again
In 1992 the Japanese American historian and political scientist, Francis Fukuyama, gained his undeserved 15 minutes of fame by publishing a pamphlet with an...