Recently Russian President Vladimir Putin stated in St. Petersburg that the work on the first line of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline across the Baltic Sea had been completed, as he pointed out that “today … the pipe-laying work of the first Nord Stream 2 (NS2) line was successfully finished. Work on the second line is ongoing” (DW, 2021). …

Recently the United Kingdom and Australia were able to broker an “agreement in principle” for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries. This “agreement in principle” was published on the 17th of June and is regarded as a crucial step, particularly for the UK, as it is its first major FTA agreement since Brexit was completed and Britain …

Ethiopia is once again in the grip of renewed violence, with a recent government attack on a market resulting in the deaths of at least 64 civilians. This is a country that has always been at the heart of global humanitarian concerns, and the events of this week are not about to change that. Ethiopia is divided into ten regional …

As renewable energy sources tend to regularly dominate the headlines in Western mainstream media, nuclear power remains all too often neglected in international relations. Especially since lobbyists and policymakers seems obsessed with the idea to replace all traditional sources of energy with renewables, in other parts of the world nuclear energy is actively encouraged to take over the gap left …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer an imaginary future, instead it has embraced our everyday life. Together with massive technological transformation, developments in artificial intelligence are challenging traditional perspectives, boundaries, methods and are promising enhanced efficiency and effectiveness in the different fields (United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, Artificial Intelligence Collection 2020). There are numerous definitions of Artificial …

As Western politicians talk about replacing present-day forms of energy production with renewable sources, Russia and China are hedging their bets on nuclear power, as well as a number of EU member states which invest heavily in new nuclear power plants. With the political urge of revolutionizing the world’s energy production, a need for reliable power sources is connected. Still, …

During the last 20 years, the threat of terrorism has completely shaped countries’ foreign policies. The East-West dichotomy of the Cold War was side-lined with the end of the communist endeavour figured by the Soviet Union, however, other dynamics took place, and one of them has categorically been the rise of terrorism. Following these changes, this essay pretends to register …

There are not many countries that could be described with the term “failed state”.  In fact, as Halden (2008, p. 15) notes: “Somalia is the paradigmatic case around which an entire category has been built encompassing cases like Liberia, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo”. Thus, it is a common place that the situation in Somalia constitutes not …

Malnutrition is often seen as the problem of undernutrition directly induced by poverty in underdeveloped countries, or the lack of access to food. Yet in recent decades, humans have made considerable progress in terms of food production and delivery – taking a global average, of course – which has been largely in line with demand. Half a century ago, 2 …

The United States and China are on the threshold of a space race that could radically influence international security, yet the incentives to cooperate remain woefully limited. Given the stakes involved, both sides should seek to avert, or at least to manage, this looming competition (Martel & Yoshihara, 2003). Encompassing civilian as well as military programs, the two countries are …