The European Union (EU) has been active is Central Asia since the breakup of the Soviet Union twenty-five years ago. Despite its geographical remoteness, the EU has shown growing interest in the region and has launched several bilateral and multilateral initiatives designed to bring Central Asia in line with EU interests and thinking. The region…

Published as a monograph by the Begin-Sadat [BESA] Center for Strategic Studies, Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Mideast and Security Policy Studies No. 135
The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies is an independent, non-partisan think tank conducting policy-relevant research on Middle Eastern and global strategic affairs, particularly as…

Honourable Sir,Its ideed an honour knowing you and getting connected with you on Linkedin.I am Ratnesh Dwivedi,a Journalist,Professor and Teerorism researcher with a keen eye on Islamist Terrorism through my association with Secindef-an counter terrorism out fit comprising persons from Israel and USA agencies. I can not express my happiness to know you…

“…if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain.” – Sun Tzu EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: “America will not lead from behind. America First does not mean America alone. It is a commitment to protecting and advancing our vital interests…” So wrote President Donald Trump’s NSA, General H.R. McMaster…

It is no secret that the conflict taking place in Syria has been one of the greatest recent sources of contention between the United States and the Russian Federation. Now, however, the tension over the Middle East situation may have peaked to an all-time high on Saturday 18 June, after an F-18 of the U.S. forces downed a Syrian Sukhoi Su-22, which was…

At the outset, let me start off by saying that like the topic under which the OP has been filed (Hypothetical Battles), another Indo - Pak war seems very unlikely in the near future. Also, I am an Indian, so I am obviously biased towards India. However, for the purpose of this answer, I will try to stick more with facts and less with assumption…

America has always had many concerns with implementing Isolationist Policies. However, in current times it is of understanding that Nations around the world have much more to lose than gain by regional and cross border conflicts. American leadership has placed the onus on other nations to work out their grievances of past and move cooperation and take…

While preparing changes in our Cuban policies, you must include changes in our policies vis-a-vis pro-Castro Caracas in Venezuela. The Maduro regime is supported by both Cuba and Iran. We must not allow Tehran's mullahs to continue getting uranium from Venezuela! And we must insist on free elections. Many democrats are dying in Venezuela— a country…

There is no doubt that on May 26, 2017 died arguably one of the most influential figures in the American foreign policy history, whose thinking has had a profound impact on the modern world, but also a man of great importance to his first motherland Poland and its citizens post-Cold War geopolitical thinking. Zbigniew Brzezinski was a man who in the…

The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, pulled out of the Paris Climate Deal for very good reasons – political reasons, economic reasons, cultural reasons, and intelligence reasons. He understood that the Paris Climate Deal is yet another attempt by the globalists led by the Rothschilds and the Vatican and the undisclosed higher…

Once they move beyond the “rage phase” of demonizing the Trump administration, leaders of the world's top economies, media assets and civil society groups would be wise to reexamine the benefits and the costs of the Paris climate deal. Climate change is realAccording to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) in the United States…

Today, 24% of global electricity is generated from RES, and this number is expected to reach about 60% by 2040. Nevertheless, despite the active growth in global capacity, RES role in the power sector is challenged by the rigidity of current grid systems, distortions of power prices following the integration of renewables, as well as their own…