by Raffaele Marchetti* | Apr 9, 2019 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
Two main dynamics are at work in the international level. The first is the state-centred “great power dynamics”. And the second is pluralist “global governance” in which a plethora of different actors exist alongside states. A main feature of the latter, non-state...
by Tom Sauer* | Apr 8, 2019 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
As any observer can notice, all great and regional powers are building up their weapons arsenals. Some are proud of it and like to show it both to the outside world and to their own people like Putin’s Russia or Kim Jong Un’s North Korea, and also Trump; others do it...
by Olena Snigyr* | Apr 6, 2019 | Commentary, Peace & Conflict Management, Political & Hybrid Warfare
The distance – physical and psychological distance of many European capitals from Crimea dwarfs the sense of danger many Europeans tend to feel about the annexation of Crimea. Despite the fact that Crimea is a part of natural-Mediterranean – Black Sea security area...
by Muqtedar Khan* | Apr 6, 2019 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
There is a revolution in progress that is shifting responsibility for governance and sovereignty away from the state to cities. This revolution even has a name: the fourth industrial revolution. In many parts of the world, cities are growing exponentially and...
by Muqtedar Khan* | Apr 4, 2019 | Commentary, Fighting Organised Crime and Terrorism, Radicalisation & Polarisation
The recent attacks on mosques in Christchurch that killed 50 worshipping Muslims and injured scores more have brought global attention to white nationalist terrorism. This phenomenon could not only grow into an international security threat akin to Islamist terrorism...
by BEYOND THE HORIZON | Apr 2, 2019 | Commentary, Events & Activities, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
The question is, if is there in fact a collapse or is there something more of a lapse, because that seems to be the assumption often in Brussels in terms of EU policy making but what we are living through our extraordinary times at some point that we will return to...
