by Lorenzo Giuglietti | May 20, 2021 | Great Power Politics, International Organisations, Policy Brief
Executive Summary The European The European Union’s Permanent and Structured Cooperation (PESCO) understandably captures the attention of policymakers and experts due to the engagements member states committed to and the consequences for the EU’s defence architecture...
by BEYOND THE HORIZON | Apr 19, 2021 | Commentary, Great Power Politics
The US policy toward China has come under the spotlight after the first high-level talks between the two countries in Alaska. This was the first serious US contact with the country since election of President Biden. On January 20, 2021, Joe Biden was officially...
by Olena Snigyr* | Feb 26, 2021 | Geopolitics & International Security, Great Power Politics, Research
Today, in this strange and difficult time of reformatting the global international order, which is already complicated by globalization and a pandemic, the European Union as a community based on the liberal values has no choice but to accept their leadership role as...
by Hall Gardner* | Jan 20, 2021 | Commentary, Geopolitics, Great Power Politics
The Trump presidency has set into motion the geostrategic and political-economic dynamics that have begun to morph the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) into Major Power Warfare— or what the US State Department euphemistically calls Great Power Competition. Since the...
by Len Ishmael PhD* | Nov 6, 2020 | Geopolitics, Great Power Politics, Research
Abstract This paper argues that Chinese state-owned enterprises and financial instruments facilitate China’s exercise of soft power and the execution of its grand strategy. Chinese investments provide an increasingly dense network of commercial links through...
by Saban Yuksel* | Aug 25, 2020 | Great Power Politics, International Organisations, Research
Introduction EUFOR RCA was the EU’s military operation in the Central African Republic[1], launched on 1 April 2014. The EU started to search for partners from the very beginning and cooperated with the United Nations (UN), African Union (AU) and the selected third...
