Middle East & Africa
Turkey and the Kurds: What goes around comes around
Turkey, like much of the Middle East, is discovering that what goes
around comes around.
Not only because President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to have
miscalculated the...
Russia-Africa Summit: Welcome to Sochi!
Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent warm
greetings to African leaders, business people and participants early
October, signaling that everything is set for the first Russia-Africa Summit...
Africa, no longer the Dark Continent
Ethiopian
PM, Abiy Ahmed was awarded the 2019
Nobel Peace Prize. He is the 12th winner from Africa. The Nobel
Committee stated, that Abiy had been awarded...
Turkey in the Kurdish Rojava
Since the
beginning of clashes in Syria, Turkey has aimed at annexing the left bank of the Euphrates up to
Mossul, a strip of land about...
Has Assad succeeded in overcoming the Syrian crisis?
A series of revolutions swept through the
Arab region. The first torch was from Tunisia when protester Mohamed Bouazizi
burned himself in opposition to the regime...
Who is Ethiopian Premier Abiy Ahmed, winner of 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for Eritrea Accord?
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been crowned the winner of the
2019 Nobel Peace Prize for "his efforts to achieve peace and international
cooperation" with...
Landing in Riyadh: Geopolitics work in Putin’s favour
When Russian President Vladimir Putin lands in Riyadh this week for the second time in 12 years, his
call for endorsement of his proposal to...
No peace for Kurds: Rojava still under attack
The Amazon
is still on fire. The “lungs of the Earth” are hardly breathing while the
flames are threatening people and nature reserves. As long as...
Revisiting Saudi-Iranian Rivalry: From A Cold War Perspective
Middle East
considered the “bridge between the East and West” has long grabbed attention of
great power policy makers due to its geostrategic and geopolitical
significance. After...
Learning lessons: Protesters stay one step ahead of rulers
There’s a déjà vu feeling to this year’s wave of protests across the Arab world.
It’s not that this year saw the toppling of
the leaders...