US national peace and security in its immediate geo-political sphere of influence is increasingly at odds of being breached by a network of anti-American and proxy insurgents founded and connected to the Iranian regime. Iran has been increasing its network of influence in Latin America and is currently using Venezuela as a sanctuary for Hezbollah and high-ranking regime operatives. Venezuela …

The present article is a critical analysis of the strategic challenges and political dilemmas that Israeli society will have to face under its the new Netanyahu-led government. The new Netanyahu-led coalition government of Israel is made of an alliance of hard-right nationalist and radical religious parties and embodies the sentiment of being the most right-wing pro-settler and expansionism government in …

The recent new deal between the Chinese state and Saudi Arabia offers some important hints to the balance of power in the region and the changing paradigm of power dynamics in it, signalling that the US´s has increasingly strained its relationship with the Saudi royal family ever since President Biden promised even before assuming office to punish the Saudi Kingdom …

Since the end of 19th century, the Middle Eastern region and countries of the Persian Gulf has taken the strategic attention of most world powers over its energy resources mainly in oil crude and more recently natural gas. In what concerns to the strategic oil crude, that geographical area holds two-thirds of the world’s reserves and because of it the …

 After weeks of increasing tensions between Kosovo and Serbia, with media of the latter country claiming that the government of Kosovo is orchestrating an attack against the Kosovo Serbs in the State’s northern region, Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic put the armed forces deployed along the border between the two States in the highest level of alert, making them ready to …

Hungary entered the EU through the great enlargement of the Union in 2004. Since then and for some time it was considered, together with Poland which was part of this group, the success story of European enlargement. All this, of course, at the time when the EU was prosperous before the financial crisis and the political austerity. When EU entered …

As Cas Mudde, professor of political science at the University of Georgia, stated, the victories of the Brothers of Italy and the Sweden Democrats has been the result of “at least two-decades-long process of what is the mainstream normalization of the far-right across Europe”. Joined by conspiracy’s theories against the national identity, anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigration sentiment, far-right parties in Europe …

After the incident of last November, relations between France and Italy are tense and rocky. Migration and borders protection is a well-known issue between the two EU States, that from time to time brings to the surface diplomatic rows and tensions. Going backwards and analysing the whole contexts it is important to underline the delicate situation between France and Italy …

Last week a terrorist attack was carried out in Kabul, with explosive planted in a hotel popular among Chinese nationals. Responsibility was claimed by the Islamic State Khorasan Province: it happened a day after a meeting between the Chinese ambassador and the Afghan deputy foreign minister to discuss security-related matters. The ISKP, a jihadist group rival of the Taliban due …

Lebanon has been at the centre of political turmoil for some time now, with the vacuum at the Presidency deepening the crisis. The plunge, which started with a financial crisis, has now affected every sector and class in Lebanon, where amidst the political uncertainty, the Lebanese are battling a cholera outbreak, energy crisis as well as disruption in healthcare services. …