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...
Concern about Iran prompts Israel to weigh acknowledgement of its own nuclear weapons
On their way from Tel Aviv airport to Jerusalem in 1977 then Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Yigael Yadin asked President Anwar Sadat, the first...
The Taliban Takeover and Afghans Ontological (In)Security
Since the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan in mid-August 2021, the general public, media, and academic environments have tremendously discussed the event’s security implications....
No, America’s Longest War Is Not Over
When the final group of American troops were flown out of the Kabul airport at the end of August 2021, President Joe Biden and...
And Afghanistan Survives as the Graveyard of Empires
Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan once tried hard to conquer the area now known as Afghanistan. Not just as "The Graveyard of Empires"...
Afghanistan highlights link between religious soft power and Gulf security
When Qatari foreign minister Sheikh Mohammed Abdulrahman Al-Thani this week described the Taliban’s repressive policies towards women and brutal administration of justice as “very...
Because Now We Can
ASARPI, registered in South Africa as The Institute for Advanced Study of African Renaissance Policies Ideas and in Mauritius as Advanced Study of African Renaissance...
The European Green Deal as an EU-Arctic Foreign Policy Tool
Authors: Gabriella Gricius and Andreas Raspotnik*
As a transformational effort to change how the European economy operates and with the goal of reaching climate neutrality...
AUKUS: Returning to de Gaulle or a Storm in a Teacup?
France’s anger at the US-UK-Australia (AUKUS) deal to build nuclear submarines in Australia is palpable but understandable, since Australia has reneged on a multi-billion-euro...
Why Prime Minister Khan has failed?
One of the finest quote attributed to James Freeman Clarke is, “a politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation”....