China spent much of 2014 seeking to revive a concept that Japan proclaimed seven decades ago, when it was an imperial power seeking to impose its...
Economic governance reforms and Eurozone consolidation has significant institutional and political consequences: a multiple-tier integration is ever more realistic. „Out” countries seek to mitigate the negative...
Emerging Diplomatic Trends: Diplomatic Fads for Solutions for Future Problems?High-profile political events and issues have many scholars, practitioners, and observers wondering how diplomatic approaches can be...
What is the main dividing line in the modern global politics? The flavor of the season is “the West vs the Rest” paradigm. The declining West...
Security, politico-military, legal and socio-economic aspects In an ever evolving and expanding world, there is a constant quest for both more energy and less external energy...
Speaking as former Secretary General of the Council of Europe on de-escalation on the Korean Peninsula, on peace and security in Eastern Asia is a real...
Why is Europe able to manage its decline, while Asia is (still) unable to capitalize (on) its success? Following the famous saying allegedly spelled by Kissinger:...
A freshly released IMF’s World Economic Outlook brings (yet again, for the sixth year in a row, and for the third time this year only) no...
As one of the active participants in the Palermo system treaty making (from the early Polish draft in 1988 to the Signing Conference in December 2000),...
There is little doubt that our geo-political problems are becoming more and more intricate and intractable. We presently have on our hands the middle East crisis,...