Since the Ba'ath Party's government ended in 2003, the Kurdish parties have seldom ever been weaker in comparison to Baghdad
No single party has emerged as
the clear winner
of Iraq's parliamentary elections, creating an unstable political environment. No coalition was able to secure the required fifty seats. Negotiators tasked with forming the government under the Shiite Coordination Framework will therefore likely face a wide range of claims from ...
... over the judicial system in Turkey.
Legal Battles and Political Maneuvering: CHP’s Ongoing Challenges
Fahil Abdulbasit Abdulkareem:
A New Era for the Kurdish Question
In May 2023, Turkey
held
its most recent general-parliamentary and presidential elections. Six parties from various political backgrounds came together to create a coalition against the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) to prepare for these elections. Despite his Kurdish and Alevi identity,...
There is a combination of factors that may contribute to easing the most confrontational aspects in Russian–German relations
The early elections to the Bundestag highlighted the irreversible transformation of German politics from a stable and somewhat boring process into a series of crises and scandals. Germany definitively bid farewell to the “Merkel era.” The government of Olaf ...
... gained traction several decades ago, drawing on quite old ideas of Joseph Schumpeter. In simple terms, it is fair to say that this model assumes that ordinary people should have little to no involvement in real politics, limiting their role to voting in elections, where the parameters, such as candidate selection, are predetermined for them.
Nevertheless, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the U.S. tried to emphasize the ceremonial and visible adherence to democratic principles as part of its ...
The presidential elections in the United States will determine the future of international relations and become a prologue for a post-Westphalian system of inter-civilizational dialogue
Russia, Europe, and America: Towards a Post-Westphalian World Order
The transformation ...
... while Georgia’s Western partners, on the contrary, expected it to side with the EU and the United States.
Georgian Dream bowed to Western demands on issues where it did not see a threat to itself:
phasing out
of the majority vote in parliamentary elections, which was
enshrined
in the new Constitution;
backing
Saakashvili’s former Foreign Minister Salome Zourabichvili, who holds dual French–Georgian citizenship and has proven herself to be a real agent for the West at the helm of the Georgian ...
...
Given that American foreign policy today is largely burdened with containing
Russia
and
China
, an active anti-Iranian policy may face a lack of resources. Therefore, Trump’s victory will be undesirable for Tehran.
The outcome of the US presidential elections has very little significance for Russia. The elections are also unlikely to fundamentally change the course of American foreign policy towards China. However, for Iran, the outcome of the elections is of greater importance. A victory for Kamala ...
... structure of relations between Russia and the West. Generally speaking, Moscow should not care who exactly the US elects as president. The figure of the president is unlikely to play a big role in Russian-American relations.
Trump's victory in the 2016 elections was greeted with applause in Moscow. At that time, Russian-American relations had already been undermined by accumulated contradictions, with the issue of Ukraine at the forefront. At the time, it seemed that the situation was still reversible....
Experts discussed both the results of the latest European Parliament elections on June 6–9 and their importance for the further development of the European Union and its positioning in the international arena
On June 18, 2024, Dostoevsky Library hosted the Russian International Affairs Counsil (RIAC) Urban Breakfast ...
MEPs don’t call the shots, so any real change in the bloc will emerge from domestic upheavals
The European Parliament elections have shaken up the political space but won’t bring revolutionary changes at EU level. Despite the success of Euroskeptic forces in a number of countries, the composition of the representative body has not seriously changed. The main jobs in ...
