As climate change worsens, the geopolitical competition in the Arctic is simultaneously increasing. With countries such as the US, China etc constantly competing over the exploitation of the territory’s resources (oil, gas reserves, crucial rare earth minerals…) while the ice melts, many believe that an independent Greenland could have significant importance and a decisive role to play in the future. …

A football event, beyond the general purpose of entertaining the masses, is also a first-class opportunity for informal meetings between diplomats and heads of state. Such an opportunity seemed to be taken advantage of by the Presidents of Egypt and Turkey, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, respectively, to restart diplomatic contacts between their countries towards the normalization of …

Today marks the 64th round of exploratory talks between Greece and Turkey, which will be held in Athens. In the wake of Thursday’s meeting in Brussels, where both Greek and Turkish Defence Ministers will be reconvening.[1] However, a question worth addressing firstly is: What do these exploratory talks encompass and what do they aim to achieve? Consensus describes this negotiation …

On the first of December 2021, the EU launched its new intiative the Global Gateway having for purpose to invest in the future, by helping developing countries with energy, digital, transport, education, health etc. This initiave follows the EU engagement taken in the COP21 and G7 commitments for Build Back Better World last June, meaning that this development needs to …

The election of the new Iranian President, the principlist Ibrahim Raisi on June 18th, 2021, has occurred in a crucial moment in which Iran and the West were engaged in ongoing technical negotiations aimed at reviving the nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Iran’s new President is trusted by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has …

Kazakhstan has been a peaceful country since it gained independence after the Soviet retreat, it has been considered a pillar of political and economic stability in an unstable region and it’s the 9th largest country in the world, bigger than Western Europe, moreover, it is extremely rich in mineral resources such as oil and gas. Recently, thousands of angry protesters …

A recent scandal has been sweeping across China concerning the coming 2022 Winter Olympics, the hosting country’s vice premier Zhang Gaoli who is the face of China’s organizing efforts ahead of the said event, has now found himself at the centre of an explosive #MeToo scandal that had the world calling for a boycott of the Games, what happened is …

BRICS – the acronym that has been widely circulated among international arena, is relatively a young union that has been formed in the beginning of the 2000s (Larionova and Kirton, 2018). Initially the acronym BRIC referred to the superpowers such as Brazil, Russia, India, China with S being added to the list in 2010 as South Africa joined the union …

COVID-19 has heightened tensions between China and the United States, placing Europe as the middleman. The EU has the tough challenge of managing its complex ties with Beijing and Washington so that the rule-based global order is not further jeopardized. However, to avoid getting stuck between the two powers, the EU should approach this war on its own by keeping …

France lost a contract approximately worth $68 billion to provide twelve conventionally-powered submarines to Australia following the signing of a military pact between the US, the UK and Australia. After the announcement on September 15, quickly voices in mainstream media on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean raised their outrage and concerns over this – as many conceived it – …