Germany’s Diplomacy hit the Ground Running
Evaluating Berlin’s position in diplomatic realm, Heiko Mass’ diplomatic conducts have been significantly encouraging. In comparison to his predecessor Sigmar Gabriel, Mass achieved a...
Karabakh conflict: How the status-quo changed after a quarter of a century
This piece mainly argues that the fact that with respect to the Karabakh conflict, the economic, military, and geopolitical balance of power has changed...
Abkhazia: Attempts to Play a Realpolitik Game?
Abkhazia faces a dilemma between closer integration with Russia, which could bring an effective loss of its independence hopes, and long term internal troubles...
France Should Not Violate Human Rights, But Should Respect And Uphold Them
France has been almost regularly featured in the front pages of newspapers across the world, but for reasons that is unexpected from a liberal...
Armenia-Azerbaijan Propaganda War and American Media Bias
Authors: Dr. Farid Shafiyev and Dr. Esmira Jafarova
The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which underwent tectonic changes after the Second Karabakh War (27.09-10.11.2020) had...
Can ‘sports diplomacy’ help the EU secure a ‘Green Deal’ alliance in the Middle East?
As the EU struggles to roll out its Green Deal across its 27 member states, it could be missing a trick: the potential to...
Of Brexit and all that
When the Brexit vote was taking place in UK in 2016, I was addressing the Jakarta Foreign Correspondents’ Club at a monthly breakfast meeting....
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...