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THE STATUS QUO OF ASIA: BETWEEN PEACE AND CONFLICT. PROSPECTS FOR PAN-ASIAN INTEGRATION

9:14 08.10.2021 Maria Smotrytska

THE STATUS QUO OF ASIA: BETWEEN PEACE AND CONFLICT. PROSPECTS FOR PAN-ASIAN INTEGRATION

Following the famous argument of prof. Anis H. Bajrektarevic ‘No Asian century without pan-Asian multilateral settings’ which was prolifically published as policy paper and thoroughly debated among practitioners and academia in over 40 countries on all continents for the past 15 years, hereby the author is revisiting and rethinking this …

ANGELA MERKEL FOR HISTORY

12:29 05.10.2021 Tomislav Jakić

ANGELA MERKEL FOR HISTORY

If any speech by (still) German Chancellor Angela Merkel will go down in history, it will be the one she gave at the ceremony on the occasion of German Unification Day on Sunday, October 3, 2021. To be more precise: that speech is historical, not because of the usual phrases …

The Taliban are bending over backwards trying to demonstrate to the world their legitimacy and readiness for dialogue

20:16 30.09.2021 Alexander Sheffner

The Taliban are bending over backwards trying to demonstrate to the world their legitimacy and readiness for dialogue

The Taliban are bending over backwards trying to demonstrate to the world their legitimacy and readiness for dialogue. They are also working hard to hide the fact that they do not control the whole of Afghanistan, and even some of their very own field commanders. However, no matter how hell-bent …

Talibans - Reloaded (A New Force under the Old Name)

15:39 27.09.2021

Talibans - Reloaded (A New Force under the Old Name)

The fall of Kabul to the Taliban, pre-negotiated with the US in Doha, Qatar, has launched yet another premeditated enterprise, as fruitless as the US effort to keep Afghanistan under its own control: so many IR scholars, pundits, and journalists, in all sorts of specialized and non-specialized publications in the …

Germany and its Neo-imperial quest

17:27 20.09.2021 Zlatko Hadžidedić

Germany and its Neo-imperial quest

In January 2021, eight months ago, when rumours about the possibility of appointment of Christian Schmidt as the High Representative in Bosnia occurred for the first time, I published the text under the title ‘Has Germany Lost Its NATO Compass?’. In this text I announced that Schmidt was appointed to …

Afghanistan Losses or Afghanistan Lost

16:54 16.09.2021

Afghanistan Losses or Afghanistan Lost

Taliban continue to seize power and territories of Afghanistan at breakneck speed. Just as before, Panjshir Province has turned out to be the “toughest nut to crack”. Whoever controls the province’s mountain passes controls routes to China and Tajikistan. This time, however, Taliban are prepared to go any lengths in …

Why the Taliban Had to Change

15:21 13.09.2021 Zlatko Hadžidedić

Why the Taliban Had to Change

The fall of Kabul to the Taliban, pre-negotiated with the US in Doha, Qatar, has launched yet another fruitless enterprise, as fruitless as the US effort to keep Afghanistan under its own control: all sorts of IR scholars, pundits, and journalists, in all sorts of specialized and unspecialized publications in …

Leaving without looking back: USA withdraw troops from Afghanistan

9:42 07.09.2021

Leaving without looking back: USA withdraw troops from Afghanistan

The United States has left Afghanistan. Even so, tension in the country persists, the situation remains horrifying. Afghanistan has once again become a land of chaos, sliding to where its 20-year, US-led “salvation” began.Notably, throughout the entire 20-year period of US presence in Afghanistan the country continued to experience a …

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 …

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