More: Geopolitics
China: The need to look to the past in order to enter the 21st century
The Communist Party of China (CPC) has always attached great importance to the synthesis of historical experience. As early as the Yanan period in...
Pulling back from the brink
The family of nations is balancing on the edge of an abyss as mushrooming religious and ethnic intolerance becomes the norm.
Western as well as...
Russia, Turkey and the new geopolitical reality
The recent Russia – Turkey summit in Sochi, even though yielding no tangible outcomes (as became clear well before it, the summit would not...
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"...
The 72nd anniversary of founding People’s Republic of China
First: The role of the Belt and Road Initiative in supporting the “responsible global leadership model of China” at the international level in the...
Turkish Geopolitics and the Kabul Airport Saga
The Taliban’s ultimate agreement to a prominent Turkish security presence at Afghanistan’s only airport completes an important power-play for the latter. Ankara wishes to...
The failure of the great games in Afghanistan from the 19th century to the present day
Whenever great powers have tried to make Afghanistan a colony, they have always been defeated. British imperialism and its “civilising mission” towards backward (and...
Nord Stream 2: A Geopolitical Tension between Russia and Ukraine and the European Dependence
Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is a 1,230-kilometer direct linkage between the Russian natural gas producers and the consumer market of Europe. The model...
US Foreign Policy Debate Rages, But Fails to Move the Needle
A series of reports published by Washington-based think tanks populated by former government officials as well as prominent United States scholars has revived debate...
Post-Afghanistan intelligence and geopolitics
The troop withdrawal has left Afghanistan in chaos, and the various intelligence agencies (including the Israeli and British ones) assess that geopolitical games are...