Ukraine has been on mouths of everyone in the recent days due to the seemingly escalating reluctance towards the possibility of them joining NATO. Currently, Russia has amounted more than 100.000 troops at the border with Ukraine, resulting in increased tensions surrounding the region. Multiple international decision-makers have addressed this issue, with Russian President Vladimir Putin meeting with the NATO …

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 …

To get started, it must first be addressed some basic concepts, such as what an interest group is. According to the definition used by the European Union in the Green Paper on a European Initiative in favour of Transparency (2006), “they are all those activities carried out with the objective of influencing the formulation of public policies and the decision-making …

In the last two years, the Balkan route has become one of the most frequented routes for illegal and uncontrolled immigration. Afghans, Pakistanis and especially Syrians have embarked on the dangerous journey to survive war and misery via the Balkan route[1]. The region already suffers from its own political, economic and social instability and fragility, and the challenge of the …

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 …

For the ones that are not aware, Barbados is a Caribbean island that was once part of the British colonial network, as a matter of fact, it became a colony in 1625 when the first English settlers arrived in the area, actually, England was the first European nation to make a permanent settlement there, unlike fellow EU members Portugal and …

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 …

When we talk about Afghanistan-India relations we usually refer to the diplomatic ties between India and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, which ruled over the territory between 2001 and 2021 until the Taliban’s takeover, the two parties are neighbors, they share both historical and cultural traditions and, as a matter of fact, the Republic of India was the only South …