A meeting between the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was held on 19 May 2021. It was the first high-level interaction between the U.S. and Russia since President Joe Biden took office, which comes amidst heightened tensions between the former Cold War adversaries. The geopolitics was worsening…

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, with the participation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has published a monograph "Nuclear Perils in a New Era. Bringing Perspective to the Nuclear Choices Facing Russia and the United States", co-authored by Steven E. Miller, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Pugwash Movement of…

Who do I call if I want to call Europe?H. Kissinger Today, the global political context is extremely complicated, and the international economic environment is tense under the pressure of the social crisis caused, in particular, by migration and the Covid-19 pandemic. At the same time, this turmoil and dissensions offer opportunities for the great…

The countries of Central Asia — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan — are divided between the remaining influence of Russia, the heir of the Soviet Union, which plays a considerable cultural and military role (e.g., within the Collective Security Treaty Organization) in the region, and the growing economic influence of…

The rapidly escalating conflict that has recently exploded between Israel and Palestine caught many extra-regional observers by surprise, even though many in West Asia had been expecting something of the sort for quite a while already. The hybrid military-political movement Hamas accused Israel of violating the Palestinians’ rights after the Israeli…

President Joe Biden said in his speech on 14 April 2021 that he is now “the fourth American president to preside over an American troop presence in Afghanistan.” He further noted, “I will not pass this responsibility to a fifth,” announcing that the troops’ withdrawal would start on May 1 and be completed by September 11.Omar Sobhani/Reuters…

In 2013, conflict began to boil when the former Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, put off an agreement between Ukraine and the European Union, which was interpreted as choosing Russia over “the West.” Very shortly thereafter, the Euromaidan revolution occurred, with pro-Western Ukrainian nationalist forces overtaking the Ukrainian government…

Dr. Dmitry Kulish is a molecular pharmacologist by education and an expert in modern pharmaceutical industry by experience. Dr. Kulish earned his PhD in biochemistry from the Moscow Institute of Molecular Genetics, then continued his postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School and obtained his MBA degree from the Wharton School of Business. Dmitry…

The recent announcement by Indian Prime Minister Modi that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to establish the 2+2 format of talks between their Defense and Foreign Ministers will synchronize the grand strategies of the two great powers. There have been noticeable concerns from both sides over the past few years that these special and…

North Macedonia has had a troubled history since it gained independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. Disputes with Greece have been settled only recently, and tensions between the ethnic groups in the country, mainly between ethnic Macedonians and a large Albanian minority, regularly come to a head. Like many countries in the Western Balkans, North…

Dr. Salam Al Rabadi According to International Labor Organization (ILO) reports, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused severe damage to the work sector, with more than 250 million jobs lost, not to mention the negative impact of the pandemic in terms of slowing or reversing the trend of rising wages around the world, which affected low-wage earners1…

The Five Eyes (FVEY) is an alliance comprising five members — Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States — sharing Signal intelligence (SIGINT)1 and, more generally, all-source intelligence regarding internal and external threats to the member states and their allies. These countries are parties to the multilateral…