China Ready to Gulp in South China Sea
Speedily and surreptitiously moving ahead in reclamations, constructions and deployment of its military bases in South China Sea (SCS), China seems definitely not using...
The Immigration Issue
The hundreds of thousands of refugees, that come to Europe in order to survive from war and the hundreds of thousands of immigrants, who...
Remaining Rogue? Iran and the Caspian Consequences of the JCPOA
Could the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) create a pathway toward democracy in the Islamic Republic of Iran or is the United States...
The Russia-OPEC-America Nexus: Reimagining the Great Oil Game
The geopolitical implication to the sudden fall in oil prices has had broad-reaching ramifications for a number of very powerful countries. Two of those...
Burdens of Tibet
Asia was in 2014 based on the Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (HIIK) Conflict Barometer for 2014 report accounted for the most conflicts...
Exposing Geopolitical Moral Relativism
With all eyes on Iran, the human rights abuses that continue in the repressive country of Turkmenistan have taken a back seat. Despite pressure...
Soft power as a threat to a hard power
2012 was fruitful for Russian legislators and painful for the NGOs. That year marked the series of laws threatening the fragile civil society in...
Kazakhstan & WTO: End of an Odyssey or New Leap Forward?
Kazakhstan applied to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) in January of 1996. Twenty long years later (July 27, 2015), President Nazarbayev signed the...
Danger of undefined territories in the South and East China Sea
The number of disputes has risen over the decades in the region known for dynamic economy, competition, rich waters, possible big oil and gas...
The Rebirth of the Patriarch of Moscow
The Orthodox Church and the Christian tradition have always assumed a role of primary importance in Russian history and tradition. The...