National Atlantic Treaty Organization has been leading a peace-support operation in Kosovo – the Kosovo Force – since June 1999. Kosovo Force was established when National Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 78-day air campaign against Milosevic’s regime, aimed at putting an end to violence in Kosovo, was over. Kosovo Force’s original objectives were to deter renewed hostilities, establish a secure environment and …

Kim Jong-Un, the globally-known North Korean leader, is the youngest of Kim Jong II’s three sons, but kinship wasn’t the only factor that linked the current ruler of North Korea to his father, he used to accompany him on military inspections at a very young age and as soon as he got older, it was thought that he worked either …

In these months, Vienna has been the scene of the negotiations to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. We are, in particular, witnessing the seventh round of negotiations that, during the last week, has reached a return to a constructive dialogue between the counterparts. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action adopted in 2015, which originally included Russia, Iran, China, …

The main topic of the week has been the celebration of 50 years of liberation war victory against Pakistan, that was a war which involved terrible atrocities against the civilian population, so much so that, to this day, certain data remain obscure regarding the actual number of victims and perpetrators, also to remain unknown are the lasting scars of the …

In these days we have witnessed the increasing of Russia’s military presence in the area next to the Eastern Ukraine border. Russia has built up several logistic centres hosting troops, armed vehicles, air forces and naval personnel. The Russian government justifies its presence at the border saying that it is part of the military exercise they are currently conducting; in …

The 1957 Treaty of Rome set out measures to build a single market through the liberalisation of trade within the European Economic Community. This document also included complementary social measures aimed at improving the living and working conditions of Europeans, maintaining high wages, addressing the imbalances caused by the restructuring of certain economic sectors and equal working conditions for men …

If the Ukrainian and Crimean crises are still a cause for concern in the eyes of the European Union and the United States, it is certain that the challenge launched by Russia to the world in this century is no longer military or ideological, but a global economic challenge. Nobody, a few years ago, believed that the Eurasian economic Union …

In order to understand the recent happenings between Pakistan and Afghanistan as well as the very root of their relationship, it is mandatory to take a look and their past history, in fact, in the 1890s, the British drew a frontier between Afghanistan and their Indian Empire which came to be known as the Durand Line, keep in mind that …

Once again Turkey finds itself in a currency crisis, In fact, the lira lost more than 40 percent of its value against the United States dollar this year, making it the worst-performing of all emerging market currencies, In November alone, the lira lost nearly 30 percent of its value against the dollar and, sinceTurkish businesses that depend on imported goods …

In 2019, the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed received the Nobel Peace Prize and was regarded as a regional peacemaker but recently, oddly enough for a Nobel peace prize winner, he has been accused of presiding a protracted civil war that bears the hallmarks of genocide, the displaced people are countless as are the hundreds of thousands of people living …