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Samson tearing open the lion’s mouth: will Panjshir fall to the Taliban?

11:09 06.09.2021 Alexander Sheffner

Samson tearing open the lion’s mouth: will Panjshir fall to the Taliban?

In their effort to demonstrate their strength to the international community, the Taliban have announced that the country will be governed by a 12-member political council. Seven candidates have been agreed so far, among them the country’s former president, Hamid Karzai. This is obviously an attempt by the Taliban to …

Cross-European Energy Shifts

17:28 02.09.2021 Mak Bajrektarevic

Cross-European Energy Shifts

Human progress has always gone hand in hand with our energy development. However, it is nowadays unequivocally considered that our energy development and particularly our energy consumption is gradually leading more and more to the phenomenon of climate change. Looking at various studies, we can see that in the last …

WHO CALLED ANGELA MERKEL?

19:45 27.08.2021 Tomislav Jakić

WHO CALLED ANGELA MERKEL?

An unusual scene was recorded by cameras during Angela Merkel's recent meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow. It was the last in a long series of meetings between the two statesmen and at the same time a farewell visit of the German Chancellor, who will remain in office until the …

World of the Shipwrecked Leadership

12:39 23.08.2021 Dr J Scott Younger

World of the Shipwrecked Leadership

The Tokyo Olympic Games, just concluded, were a spectacular success and grateful thanks are owed to our Japanese hosts to make this event so, at a time when we were in the middle of a global pandemic. There were many doubts expressed beforehand by many people over the Games going …

Natural gas and national interest

14:25 16.08.2021 Alexander Sheffner

Natural gas and national interest

We do not think about where it comes from, or who gets it. All we care about is how much it costs and that the heat that it gives never ends. Some people do care about what kind of natural gas his or her stove is running on though. The …

Five Hypotheses About the Future World

15:21 13.08.2021 Dmitry Evstafiev

Five Hypotheses About the Future World

THE POST-GLOBAL WORLD is still in embryo, but it is already clear what some of its basic characteristics will be, and it is details and limits of these characteristics that are yet to manifest themselves. This article is part of a larger study. Some of the conclusions stated in it …

Past century revisited

13:02 04.08.2021 Dr J Scott Younger

Past century revisited

It is 100 years since we were supposedly getting over the war to end all wars, World War I, and forming the League of Nations with the purpose of preventing such a conflict and slaughter happening again. Regrettably, the only good that came out of it was the proposal to …

International Criminal Court and thousands of ignored complaints

13:40 02.08.2021 Fedor Zima

International Criminal Court and thousands of ignored complaints

The civil war in Donbass has been going on for more than seven years now. It broke out in 2014, following Kiev’s decision to launch a military operation against the local militia in Donbass, who did not accept the Maidan coup that had happened in February of that same year. …

Democracy and Human Rights as Basis for Lasting Peace

13:24 28.07.2021 Isabella Maria Bello Arocha

Democracy and Human Rights as Basis for Lasting Peace

(says former Prime Minister of Norway, H.E. Kjell Magne Bondevik)On May 25th, as part of the Geneva Lecture Series concepted and conducted by prof. Anis H. Bajrektarevic, a large number of international affairs specialists, faculty fellows, practitioners and diplomats gathered for a special session devoted to Democracy and Human Rights. …

Afghanistan: No Peace without a Clear Vision

12:58 22.07.2021 M. Djawed Sangdel

Afghanistan: No Peace without a Clear Vision

Peace is the absence of war, while war is the absence of peace! A negotiated peace in Afghanistan presents a number of challenges. The duration of the war over several decades has created a number of situations, that requires an in-depth examination in light of the peace negotiations that took …

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