Major General (ret) Volodymyr HAVRYLOV
A gradual build-up of Russian military on the North-East, East and South borders with Ukraine began at the beginning of March 2021.
The Ukrainian military consider two possible scenarios for the current Russian military activity:
- A demonstration of force as a warning to Ukraine not to try to liberate the occupied territories by force.
- An escalation of hostilities in the East of Ukraine followed by Russian attempts to expand the area of occupation.
16/04/2021
Free Readings
Region: Black Sea
Topic: Conflicts
Amb. Prof. Dumitru CHICAN
For the past decade the world faced a series of crises more or less dramatic, which had in common their unpredictability, shocking occurrence, and lack of ability or interest in being foreseen and anticipated as far as prevention was concerned.
04/04/2021
Free Readings
Region: Global
Topic: Various Topics
Laura VANSINA
The multitude and diversity of the new military conflicts that have captured the international scene in recent years have produced strong reverberations over the way Russia foreign policy has been built. In an unstable geopolitical context, with increasingly strong and visible tensions in the international arena, Vladimir Putin’s election as President of the Russian Federation was a turning point, offering new meanings to security and defence concepts.
03/04/2021
Free Readings
Region: Russia
Topic: Geopolitics and Geostrategy
Robert ADAM
Politically speaking, the rhetoric of populism triumphs, in a world where the threat is global, is indicative of the rise of political populist movements. Such narrative existed and will continue to exist independent from the nature and size of threat.
26/03/2021
Free Readings
Region: Global
Topic: Various Topics
Guy BOEKENSTEIN
The Australian Government has a long history of capacity building initiatives across the Indo-Pacific region with the objective to sustain the sovereignty, stability, security and prosperity of the region. The initiatives are delivered through aid programs, defence cooperation programs, medical and health projects, academic and professional exchange programs etc.
25/03/2021
Free Readings
Region: Global
Topic: Various Topics
Ali EL AALLAOUI
The self-determination process in Western Sahara accumulates a series of cases that result in a successive violation of collective and individual rights, which has been repeated for years.
Trump's American position in favour of the Moroccan thesis over Western Sahara, and that of his successor Joe Biden who takes the middle baton are counterproductive and draws a new American policy in the Maghreb.
21/03/2021
Free Readings
Region: Mediterranean Sea
Topic: Various Topics
Eva J. KOULOURIOTIS
The attack launched by the Houthi militia in Yemen against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the end of last month against its capital, Riyadh, is considered the most dangerous after that on Aramco in September 2019 and came a few days after the removal of the Houthi militia from the US terrorist lists. This was seen as a sign of weakness by the militia and the green light to raise the level of its demands and confirm its ability to harm its opponents, especially Saudi Arabia.
21/03/2021
Free Readings
Region: Middle East
Topic: Asymmetrical Threats
Dr. Ion I. JINGA
The term “Global Commons” is traditionally used to indicate the Earth’s shared natural resources beyond the national sovereignty of any state. It historically refers to the global ocean, the atmosphere, the outer space and Antarctica.
16/03/2021
Free Readings
Region: Global
Topic: Asymmetrical Threats
Dr. Eugene KOGAN
US-Turkey relations have a history of challenges in general but with the ascent of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2002 the challenges reached their peak with the failed coup of 15 July 2016 that Erdoğan squarely blamed on the US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.
15/03/2021
Free Readings
Region: Global
Topic: Various Topics
Amb. Prof. Dumitru CHICAN
Five weeks after officially taking office, Joe Biden drew the attention of the daily news consumers through two moves he made in less than a day.
First, an air raid that targeted several locations of the pro-Iranian armed militias located at the Eastern border between Syria and Iraq.
The second was when, at his initiative, the US President had a phone conversation with King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud.
06/03/2021
Free Readings
Region: Middle East
Topic: Geopolitics and Geostrategy
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