Waking up at 7 am isn' hard: it's already sunny and so hot you're walking from a cold conditioned room not that quickly. The Royal Museum is a formal Royal residence; its basically a very beautiful palace. Inside we take off our shoes and walk on a nice carpet watching incredible interiors and pictures of the Royal family. After that we…

Malaysian International Youth Exchange 2014 (MIYE 2014) is an event that takes place during the
46th Malaysian Youth Day celebrations – International Youth Day starting
on the 21st to 26th of May 2014. This is a huge celebration holding in Putrajaya (a new administrative capital of Malaysia). Last year more then 1 million people attended to…

This paper analyzes the origins and causes of the radical reforms undertaken in Russia’s academic sciences sector, which resulted in the fusion of three state academies in 2013.  Numerous claims made by the Russian government and experts against the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) have created tension between RAS leadership and the Russian…

The European Elections are approaching and the Commision President candidates closed their general campaign with two final debates at the State of the Union Conference in Florence and at the Eurovision Debate in Brussels, during which the challengers unveiled their different policies over a number of issues. European foreign policy and the…

First day is a bit confusing as there is so much going on and everything is so new that your brain is just doesn't operate the right way. In the evening the first meeting with all the participants of the event and a shirt briefing took part. And now, when already here, we have realized that this program we are about to participate in is truly…

“Close your eyes and you’re not sure if it’s an Israeli or a Saudi speaking.”
 
That’s what Daniel Levy, Middle East director at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), told The New York Times in an article dated March 31st. The ECFR, which has called for a greater role for Al Qaeda in Algeria to…

 
The Intelligence Community, regardless of regime type, has famously always tried to co-opt and ultimately adopt advancements and evolutions in technology, especially in terms of media. Newspapers, radio, and television have long been appropriated in order to influence, massage, and outright manipulate messages and events important to the…

Why is this happening now?  Conveniently for Putin, a 1914 treaty, giving the U.S. first dibs on building the canal, ran out in December 2013.   Putin likely aims at distracting   us in our strategic backyard while destabilizing the eastern Ukraine.   This resembles the strategy Nikita Khrushchev pursued in Cuba while…

The May 16, 2014 victory of Prime Minister Narendra Modiin the world´s largest  democratic election  is indeed a game-changer. His Bharatiya Jamala (BJP) party won a landslide victory in parliament against the  Congress Party incumbents.   The victory of pro-business Modi is looked upon in the U.S. primarily…

Analyzing President Obama’s foreign policy, or rather, analyzing the intellectual and positional evolution of his global positions is no easy task. It would not be hyperbole to say Obama came into office with the hopes and dreams of millions of Democrats and perhaps even the muted optimism of many moderate Republicans. In other words…

If you spend some time listening to reputable news shows all across the West you will start to notice several recurring ‘interpretations’ that explain all things Russian and Vladimir Putin. Rather than being enlightening about this complex country and perhaps even more complex leader, a series of increasingly incredulous…

“The Soviet people’s iron wills, fearlessness and steadfast courage saved Europe from enslavement,” said Russian President Vladimir Putin. On May 9, celebrating Russia´s victory over Nazi Germany sixty-nine years ago in Red Square,  Putin addressed one of the largest and best organized military parades since the…