The People’s Republic of China is, to this day, the second largest world economy. And yet its currency, the Yuan, is still heavily influenced by the Dollar, the currency of a country which is perceived by the PRC as antagonist. However, as recently as April 2021, the PRC announced the experimentation of a digital version of the Yuan, the Digital …

One of the most dramatic humanitarian crisis that has hit Asia in a long time is the one concerning the Rohingya minority of Myanmar, whose population suffered gross human rights violations in the last years. However, Myanmar is also a member of ASEAN, an international organization of ten South-East Asia countries, and in 2007 the member states reunited in Jakarta …

Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia have been at odds for more than a decade over a dam that Addis Ababa is building on the Blue Nile, the Nile River’s primary tributary. In this regard, In an indirect reference to the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam(GERD) at the sidelines of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on …

As the COP26 conference is taking place, one prominent leader absent is Turkish President Recep Tayyep Erdogan, who cited security concerns as an excuse. Pledging to renounce fossil fuels anytime soon does not fit in the overall Turkish strategy of becoming a regional energy hub (Directorate of Communications, 2020) to cement its position of a powerful actor in the wider …

In 2009 Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and the Democratic Constitutional Rally were dominating the political life in Tunisia by using threats of terrorism and religious extremism as one of the means to put pressure and to dissuade peaceful dissent coming from other parties, in order to install an effective policy of terror, when Ali was elected, he designed laws with …

The History between the two countries goes a long way, since 1955 Moscow had provided military training and warfare material to Afghanistan and supported the PDPA, the at-the-time recently government installed upon Marxist ideology, which then split and whose more radical faction decided to improve relations with the U.S rather than following the soviet influence, these happenings eventually led to …

The EU and China signed a bilateral Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) in December 2020, after eight years of complex negotiations. The document, intends to provide international investors with broader market access, which will be enforced through state-to-state dispute resolution (Sapir, Dadush,2021) . Although, it does not  include investor protection (such as against expropriation), investor protection is covered by bilateral …

An unimaginable amount of people still confuses Taiwan, also known as Formosa, with mainland China, although their cultures seem very similar, they are in fact two very distinct countries. In order to understand the reasons for the growing hostility between the two of them we must go back to the origins, the first settlers on the island are thought to …

Earlier this month, tensions between Iran and Azerbaijan grew following Tehran’s large-scale military exercise near the Azeri border. This was aimed to show Iranian military capabilities to a neighbour accused, among others, of links with the West and especially with Tehran’s historic rival Israel (Motamedi, 2021). According to Iranian state media, the military drills started near Poldasht and Jolfa border …

Millions of individuals around the world suffer from malnutrition. Most of them come from countries that are linked directly with conflicts, as conflicts affect the food availability and accessibility by having a great impact on agricultural production, mainly through the destruction of infrastructure. Besides that, conflict causes security malfunctions related to the access to the markets and thus, as a …