Wishful Thinking: The Conservative Hold on Power in Post-JCPOA Iran
Within the Iranian domestic political scene the use of the nuclear program to affect elections has been in place for the past decade or...
The shooting down of the Russian plane
A Russian aircraft, a Sukhoi-24, which NATO calls Fencer, the low-flying tactical bomber - an aircraft considered better than our Tornado - was shot...
The US strategic bet on India for a pivot Asia-Pacific Strategy
The geopolitical, geostrategic and the economic, significance of the Asia-Pacific region makes it an apple of everybody’s eye involving many powers struggling for the...
Beijing -Taipei Rapprochement or Rhetoric
Having series of conflicts, crisis and tensions in Taiwan Strait, it seems land bodies around the blue water are willing to forge a peace...
Russia: Attempting a Bridge to Africa
While Russia's interest in the sub-Saharan Africa is nothing new, Russian authorities have realized that it’s time to move back primarily to reclaim its...
Strategic Alignments at SCO: Prospects for India-Pakistan bilateral Relations
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, initially, the Shanghai Five was created by China, Russia, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan in 1996 with the aim to resolve...
Rethinking War on Terror
There is a claim constantly circulating the EU: ‘multiculturalism is dead in Europe’. Dead or maybe d(r)ead?... That much comes from a cluster of...
A brief focus on Portugal
A few days after the new minority government of Coelho has shaped, Portugal appears to be towards a parliamentary critical situation. Even before the...
“Kazakhstan is intended to become a world hub for development of green power”
Last August, Mr. Akhmetzhan Yessimov, a man with a great economic and diplomatic experience and former Akim (Mayor) of Almaty, appointed Chairman of Astana...
Trust, but Verify: Countering the Critics of the JCPOA
The real question on everyone’s mind with regard to the JCPOA is whether or not Iran will honor its commitments. There are two differing...