More: Geopolitics
The structure of the North Korean political and military issue
North Korea’s military strength is the strength of its nuclear potential. As the North Korean Foreign Minister stated at the ASEAN Forum in early...
eBook: North Korea in the Crosshairs- Strategic Considerations about the Conflict
This anthology put together by the Modern Diplomacy gives readers an up-to-the-minute rendering of the conflict raging on the Korean peninsula from diplomatic, military,...
What Are Nexus States?
What are ‘Nexus States’? For the purposes of this discussion, they’re defined as small states that enjoy a convergence of geographical access, financial services...
Vatican, Moscow & China: A New Global Religious and Spiritual Hegemony
The record is substantially positive. This is how Cardinal Parolin has summarized the results of his recent visit to the Russian Federation.Firstly, there is...
H.E. Card. Parolin Secretary of State goes to Russia
For the 70th anniversary of the russian patriarch Cyrill and for the 80th anniversary of pope Francis, there have been many meetings between the...
Why does China need a “support” base in Djibouti?
For four decades since 1949, Chinese government vowed not to send a single soldier abroad during the peacetime. This statement sounds credible because the...
Russia and Global Forecasting: Getting Past Melodrama Diplomacy
The President of the E. M. Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO), Academician...
Playing with Fire: Trump’s Iran policy risks cloning North Korea
As US President Donald J. Trump gropes with a set of bad options for responding to North Korea’s rapidly expanding nuclear and ballistic missiles...
Macron’s global strategy in Africa and in the European Union
Both Chirac and Sarkozy had five minutes to leave power, while François Hollande could even have five months to do so. In fact, at...
The Gulf crisis: Small states battle it out
Buried in the Gulf crisis is a major development likely to reshape international relations as well as power dynamics in the Middle East: the...