by Alexy Zender* | Jan 22, 2019 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
Becoming a global power depends on domination in the oceans and seas. Dominating the seas and oceans means having the strategic advantage militarily and controlling economically significant sea lines of communication. The USA, which is a global or hegemonic power,...
by Helen Lackner | Jan 17, 2019 | Commentary, Peace & Conflict Management
The fear and terror induced by this situation, combined with unbearable survival conditions are creating a generation of psychologically scarred people, many of whom will never be able to live normal lives. Less than a month after the signature of the Stockholm...
by Anne Speckhard | Jan 11, 2019 | Commentary, Fighting Organised Crime and Terrorism, Radicalisation & Polarisation
By Anne Speckhard*, Ardian Shajkovci** and Hamid Sebaly*** At a recent counterterrorism conference held by the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism in Brussels, Belgium, a seven-year-old’s words touched the issues currently pressing upon the heart...
by Alexy Zender* | Jan 3, 2019 | Commentary, Disruptive Technologies
In recent years, humanity has been being faced with a technological development that may result in radical changes in post-industrial revolution economic, social, cultural, political and military fields. Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be able to shape the future...
by Saban Yuksel | Dec 21, 2018 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
The far-right parties are not recent phenomena in the old continent. Following the catastrophe of the second world war, mainly caused by the far-right, nationalist and fascist parties, it became a practice, maybe with some exceptions, not to have them in governments...
by Erman Atak* | Dec 20, 2018 | Commentary, Peace & Conflict Management
The latest milestone in the peace process for the Libya crisis, Palermo Conference, passed without a significant breakthrough on 13-14 November 2018. No final agreement has been reached during the leader’ meeting which Khalifa Haftar didn’t attend (He only attended...
