Space Diplomacy: India’s new foreign policy tool
For 25 years, Space stations and GPS satellites
have been mapping the outer space 12,000 miles above the earth's surface. Space
has always been an unchartered...
Armenia’s position blurred the progress for the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and leads to an escalation
The conflict between two South Caucasus
countries - Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh became as one of
the bloodiest and long-lasting conflicts contributing to instability...
Trump’s New Wall? Mexico’s Southern Border
For much of modern history, Mexico defined
itself in opposition to the United States. In recent years, the two countries
stepped up cooperation on almost all...
Caught in geopolitical crossfire: Al-Azhar struggles to balance politics and tradition
When Pope Francis I visited
Egypt in 2017 to stimulate inter-faith dialogue he walked into a
religious and geopolitical minefield at the heart of which was...
The tension between Iran and the United States
At the beginning of last summer, precisely on May 8,
2018, US President Donald J. Trump carried out one of his old projects, i.e. to
explicitly...
Building cohesive societies: Southeast Asian states take on gargantuan challenge
Several Southeast Asian governments and social movements are seeking to
counter mounting polarization and inter-communal strife across the globe fuelled
by the rise of civilizationalist leaders...
Water Diplomacy: Creating Spaces for Nile Cooperation
The Nile
River is the longest river on the earth, with eleven nation states sharing it
and over 487 million people or about 20% of the...
Thailand’s Inequality: Unpacking the Myths and Reality of Isan
For decades, the ethnically and linguistically diverse people of Isan,
Thailand, have been the subject of pervasive bias, often described as docile
and uneducated, or as...
Russia, Africa and the SPIEF’19
In 2019,
four African countries - Côte d’Ivoire, Lesotho Niger and Somalia - for the
first time attend the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF’19)
held on...
The economic summit in Bahrain won’t be about Palestinian-Israeli conflict
In less
than two weeks Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt will present in Manama the
first part of the long-awaited “deal of the century”, the peace...