As the three-year campaign to forcefully remove the Islamic State from Iraqi borders appears to have shifted toward Baghdad’s favor, perennial issues tied to Kurdish statehood are expected to reemerge amidst the backdrop of a rapidly changing regional order. In early June 2017, Masoud Barzani - President of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government…

On July 23, 2017, Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak told the Financial Times that Libya should join the oil supply production cut agreement brokered by Moscow and OPEC last December. Russia’s decision to target Libya, alongside Nigeria and US shale gas, surprised some observers, as Moscow retains tight links to military chieftain Khalifa…

While the media is abuzz with various analyses on how the current India-China military standoff in the Doklam bowl may pan out, they generally miss the larger issue at stake: namely the need for a permanent border resolution between both nations. Any temporary resolution over the 89-square kilometre yak-grazing ground claimed by China and Bhutan would…

Six months of fighting for a new package of targeted sanctions against Russia ended up on August 2 with the President of the United States Donald Trump signing the "The Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act" in the edition approved by the Senate on July 25.The overwhelming majority of Russian experts and politicians agreed…

Erdogan’s recent motives and cornerstone foreign policy objectives are really problematic for the former allies of Ankara. The more Ankara pushes for an independent foreign policy apart from Washington and Berlin the more it becomes a headache for deep states both in the United States and Germany. Erdogan since sometimes tried to normalize…

Eastern and Central Europe are self-sufficient neither energetically, nor economically. Attempts are being made towards greater independence from Russian energy resources and increased regional cooperation. The Three Seas Summit, attended by President Trump last week was as a stepping stone in this direction. The 2017 Three Seas Summit was the second…

China is the predominant worldwide exporter of manufactured goods, creating an enormous portion of the world’s consumer products and other items that are more dependent on man hours than on capital capacity. At face value, this is a good thing for the world: China can produce far more goods for much cheaper at a functional quality than, say, the…

In the wake of the Second World War, the United States found itself in an unprecedented position of power. As the only country to emerge from the chaotic fighting as both victorious and unscathed relative to its European and Asian counterparts, the United States was able to set the tone for its establishment of a liberal hegemony over the world…

Subject: The Evolving Nuclear Order: New Technology and Nuclear RiskVenue: Andalo (Trento, Italy)Date: 7-14 January 2018Director of the School: Carlo Schaerf (ISODARCO, Rome, Italy).Directors of the Course: Francesca Giovannini (Committee on International Security Studies, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, USA) and Steven Miller…

Since Donald Trump took over the oval office, uncertainty has two-folded and the International Liberal Order came under jeopardy. Even some analysts smack the drum of the end of the unipolar world. It was more evident during the G20 summit, which American lost its leading role to encourage the summit participant to condemn North Korea’s…

UPDATE 19 DEC According to Buenos Aires News and other sources, Colombia's justice system has fined Brazil construction and engineering giant Odebrecht $250 million, having found the firm guilty of corruption to secure contracts. The company is also banned from tendering for state contracts in Colombia for ten years. According to the Buenos Aires News…

1959 Nikita Khrushchev Our efforts to build our economy without expansion of socialism in Europe and seed planting in America will place us in a situation where China will exploit our land and peoples as they are of much more adversarial communist and will fall victim of our horrendous Stalinist years of oppression and genocide. I believe we can move…