Today’s international relations are characterised by the multipolarity of actors in the international system, with more and more countries influencing politics, security and economics. Eurasia has become a strategic region due to its economic potential and natural resources, which has led these countries to unite under the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Initially formed in 2001 by China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, …

Despite progress in several areas of regional cooperation, the EU’s enlargement process remains slow. In the last seven years, the only progress was the European Council’s decision in March 2020 to open accession talks with Albania and North Macedonia, but negotiations have not yet started, mainly due to the conditions imposed on Albania and Bulgaria’s veto on North Macedonia. In …

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 …

ASEAN, or the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, is an economic union in Southeast Asia made up of ten member states that promotes intergovernmental cooperation and facilitates economic, political, security, military, educational, and sociocultural integration between its members and other Asian countries. The major goal of ASEAN was to speed economic growth and, as a result, social and cultural development. …

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 …

The summer of  2021 has been a tumultuous one for both the Haitian people and their government, precisely on July 7th, a bunch of individuals who were armed broke into the private residency of the soon to be ex Haitian president Jovenel Moïse and managed to kill him mercilessly by shooting him, leaving a country without its lead and shocking …

China has achieved the most rapid expansion in history by any major economy (World Bank, 2018). As historically one of the poorest nations in the world, it now has the world’s second largest economy and has been deemed by some as an emerging superpower (Angang, 2011). Yet, what are the extensive consequences and ramifications of China’s ‘miraculous’ economic growth and …

The general elections to the German parliament are nearing, and the polls suggest no clear coalition and only a small lead for the co-ruling Conservatives under Chancellor Angela Merkel who will resign. Germany is the strongest EU economy, and hence, has a large impact on economic policies in Europe. It has also been one of the countries that came out …

The Republic of Cuba has been organized through a communist political system since 1959 based on the “one state, one party” principle. Actually, the Cuban Constitution, approved in 2019 through a referendum, protects the role of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) by providing that it is “the leading force of society and of the state” and as such, it …