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President Zelensky at the MSC 2020: An Epistemological Shift toward Reconciliation
On Saturday February 15, Ukrainian President
Zelensky reiterated his pledge to end the conflict in the Donbas during his
tenure, in a speech that contrasts with...
“Westlessness”: Munich Security Report 2020
Is the world becoming less Western? Is the West itself becoming
less Western, too? What does it mean for the world if the West leaves...
Violence in North and West Africa increasingly targeting civilian and border areas
Violence
in North and West Africa is increasingly targeting civilian and border regions
as today’s conflicts involve non-state actors with diverging agendas, according
to a new report...
Foreign fighters: ‘One of the most serious dimensions’ in global counter-terrorism struggle
Over the
past few years, ISIL and Al-Qaida terrorist fighters have posed an
“unprecedented threat to international peace and security”, the UN
counter-terrorism chief said on Wednesday...
How Internal Political Instability Risks Threatening Pakistan’s International Commitments
Dharna (Mass sit-ins) politics in Pakistan
is not a new phenomenon as it has happened several times by various political
parties and other entities. Yet, it...
Thwarting Iranian Influence is Key to Iraq’s Security
The
mass uprisings in Iraq over the past several months have many factors in
common, the most salient of which include ordinary citizens
decrying economic hardship and...
Mapping the Negative Indian Nuclear Security
Nuclear security has been a key issue for South Asia for several decades
since India conducted its nuclear tests in 1974. Indian struggle to attain...
Erdogan battles on multiple fronts in risky regional power bid
The optics seem evident: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is at
odds with just about everybody.
Mr. Erdogan is on opposite sides of Russia in Syria,...
The Exclusive Maritime Economic Zones in the Mediterranean
Nowadays all coastal countries are taking
action at maritime level by creating Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) and this
happens also in the already crowded Mediterranean, thus...
Turkey’s new Mediterranean and Maghreb policy
Strategy and geopolitics are like
Aristotelian physics: there is no vacuum.
In
fact, just as Italy is leaving the fundamental Libyan area to its destiny and
hence...