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Lessons from Dr Strangelove: How To Avoid Nuclear War
How close are we to a second Cuban Missile Crisis? Sixty years after a 13-day standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union,...
Changing Roles: Why Countries of Middle East May be Future’s Best-Suited Mediators?
Today’s world, with its current architecture of international relations, has entered a new phase of transformation, one that will take years. As a rule,...
POLITICO: “The global economy is in chaos. The worst is yet to come”
The global turmoil provides the latest test of U.S. influence over international affairs, after the Biden administration sought to re-engage with the world in...
The Vostok Military Exercises 2022: Three Takeaways
From 01 August to 07 September, Russia conducted the Vostok 2022 military and strategic command exercise at seven training grounds in the Eastern Military...
Third-Party Liability
The Western world was shocked in late September when news broke that Saudi Arabia had helped negotiate a 300-person prisoner swap between Ukraine and...
Putin’s General
Somewhat fragmented, the Russian forces opposing Ukraine have never had an overall commander. That was remedied this week when Vladimir Putin appointed Air Force...
Russia – Iran Bilateral and Regional Relations after the Invasion of Iraq
The convergence between Russia and Iran started in the second half of the Gorbachev era. Gorbachev, who supported Iran and then Iraq alternately during...
The Perils of Russian mobilisation
The unexpected military defeat in the Kharkiv oblast and major reversals in the Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kherson oblasts has forced Vladimir Putin to announce...
Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict: Questions exceed answers
Diplomacy against a military backdrop
Two years have passed since the second Nagorno-Karabakh war. The parties were scheduled to meet again in November this year...
The History of Western Hypocrisy
The drumroll of democracy was knelled by the United Nations - colloquially known as the Allies - as the Nazi clout waned after World...