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The Libyan Failure: Obama and Clinton’s Forgotten War
On February 17th, 2011 the Arab Spring swept Libya. Within a couple of weeks, Tripoli had fallen and the National Transitional Council was established...
The Russian military posture
The big parade organized on May 9, 2016 to commemorate the 71st anniversary of the USSR victory in the Great Patriotic War - as...
The Uighur issue
The autonomous region of Xinjiang, in the People’s Republic of China – with a relative majority of Turkmen Muslim people (45%) and the Han...
The Trump Doctrine Explained
“My foreign policy will always put the interests of the American people and American security above all else.” Donald Trump’s recent speech discussed his...
Russia between economic crisis and geostrategic projections
As Lev Tolstoj maintained "There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time". These are two of the most characteristic traits of the...
Belgium: Marking Syria’s 70 years of Independence
Marking the 70th anniversary of the Syrian Independence Day from the French colonial power, nonprofit organization SOLIDALE, also named SOL.ID, organized a “Stand by...
Turkey’s current wishes
As early as January 11, 2016, even though we came to know it only in March, King Abdullah of Jordan stated in Washington that...
More Bear than Eagle: Russia Taking Advantage of an American Vacuum
It is evident that the US cannot fight DAESH as if there is no complex war raging in Syria. Considering the conditions on the...
The Russian Federation’s geopolitics
In a now famous speech delivered at the Conference on Security, held in Munich in 2007, Vladimir Putin harshly clarified the structural determinants of...
Hard and Soft Power in the Caspian: Russian and Iranian Objectives
Two of the five states that border the Caspian Sea can be considered hegemonic in the region: Russia and Iran. Although this is beneficial...