Proceed With Caution: South Caucasus Inch Forward
There is good news from the South Caucasus, at least for some. Armenia and Azerbaijan fought a bloody conflict in the mountains of Nagorno-Karabakh...
Unhappy Iran Battles for Lost Influence in South Caucasus
Events that might not matter elsewhere in the world matter quite a lot in the South Caucasus. Given a recent history of conflict, with...
Iceland’s Historic(al) Elections
The morning of September, 26 was a good one for Lenya Run Karim of the Pirate Party. Once the preliminary results were announced, things...
EU-Balkan Summit: No Set Timeframe for Western Balkans Accession
On October 6, Slovenia hosted a summit between the EU and the Western Balkans states. The EU-27 met with their counterparts (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia,...
German Election: Ramifications for the US Foreign Policy
In the recent German election, foreign policy was scarcely an issue. But Germany is an important element in the US foreign policy. There is...
Revisiting the Birthplace of Non-Aligned Movement
After 60 years, leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) returned to the organization's birthplace in Belgrade, capital of Serbia. During the two-day meeting hosted...
Is Kosovo Threatened by the European Far-Right? A Commentary on Forza Nuova and its Balkan Connections
The success that the Italian centre-left party Partito Democratico obtained in the administrative elections on October 3 and 4, led the press to believe...
AUKUS, the Indo-Pacific, and France’s Role: Fluctuat nec Mergitur
The announcement of the new AUKUS alliance between Australia, the UK and the U.S. came as a shock for France. Paris has never been...
Erdogan the Likely Winner as Post-War Armenia Rethinks
It is only a year since Turkey demonstrated its new power in the South Caucasus, providing significant military and other help to Azerbaijan to...
Angela Merkel For History
If any speech by (still) German Chancellor Angela Merkel will go down in history, it will be the one she gave at the ceremony...