Canada’s partnership with Australia to develop Arctic radar systems marks a decisive turning point in its defense strategy. Whereas in the past Canada relied on the US as a key ally and on international norms to secure its sovereignty in the Arctic, it is now stepping into a more independent role. Given the changing priorities of the US under President …

According to a global study conducted by the Pew Research Centre in 2012, only 16% of the global population was not affiliated with any religion. In the last decade, this number followed the tendency to decrease, reaching 14,4% of world population considered as atheist (Statista, 2022). It is obvious that compared to all the religious citizens, this number might seems …

            The long-established superpower of the United States has seen much criticism over the last few years that, in a way, is challenging their supremacy over the international community. Ever since Donald Trump’s election, US politics went from assertive to chaotic, where their internal struggles undoubtedly translated into the international landscape, allowing other countries to change priorities in their diplomatic games …

It has been well established over the last few decades that there has been a power shift in international relations, where the old and established superpower monopoly over each hemisphere hasn’t been questioned. This scenario, where we have been completely accustomed to things as they are post-cold war, has changed to allow each country to expand their cultures into one …

Under the Biden Administration, the US foreign policy focused on improving its relations with the countries of South-East Asia. The program, called Indo-Pacific Strategy, signed a complete change of direction from the Trump era. Indeed, in 2016 the US government tried to disrupt the relationship created in the past with Indo-Pacific states and, especially, did not commit to protecting Taiwan …

Drug addiction is a serious problem in every country however, the United States are particularly affected and every decade seems to have its stream of biases related to drug usage and trafficking. Drugs are mainly an issue of health, and many powerful countries have been justifying their involvement in reducing the availability of narcotics from foreign sources with the intended result …

The United States’ relationship with Cuba has been marked by political tensions and economic restrictions. The sanctions imposed by the US on Cuba represent one of the most enduring and comprehensive sanctions regimes ever applied. The U.S. cited human rights violations, communist tendencies and regional instability as the primary reasons for the sanctions. Even recently, US diplomat Paul Folmsbee stressed …

            On September 10th of 2023, the world witnessed a historical meeting from two old timed enemies: the US and Vietnam. As history shows, the two countries weren’t considered allies during most of the 1900’s, resulting in the Vietnamese War that marked one of the USs’ biggest military defeats. Now, the two countries meet, trying to establish more transparent international …

Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump have found themselves in the middle of some controversial scandals related to the storage of classified documents. The current and the former president, in different circumstances, have retained documents containing government secrets after having abandoned their institutional roles: Biden as vice-president under the Obama administration and Trump as US president. This is a cause …

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 …