Biden officials have signaled acceptance of Trump-negotiated trade agreements and maintained tariffs and export controls targeting China—at least for now. Will this situation last? Activists Worry Anti-Trans Health Care Law Will Go Into Effect The Biden administration has made major changes to foreign policy, but it has …
Read More »The problems of climate change
Giancarlo Valori In recent years, increasing evidence has shown that the world is warming. Scientists’ research tells us that the cause of global warming in recent decades is most likely to be a large number of greenhouse gases released as a result of industrial production and everyday life …
Read More »Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Security Studies
Zaeem Hassan Mehmoud “Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions, and its own peculiar preconceptions. Each period therefore, would have held its own theory of war, even if the urge had always and universally existed to ensure security on scientific principles” -Carl von …
Read More »The Nuclear future of East Asia
Sze-Fung Fee In the face of North Korea and China’s continuous expansion and advancement in their nuclear arsenal in the past decade, the nuclear question for East Asian countries is now more urgent than ever—especially when U.S.’s credibility of extended deterrence has been shrinking since the post-cold war …
Read More »The New World Order: the conspiracy theory and the power of the Internet
Giancarlo Valori “The Illuminati, a mysterious international organisation made up of the world’s top political and social elites, controls the workings of the entire world behind the scenes”. This is the world’s most famous conspiracy theory about the New World Order. For hundreds of years, legends about the …
Read More »Reforms Key to Romania’s Resilient Recovery
Anna Bjerde Over the past decade, Romania has achieved a remarkable track record of high economic growth, sustained poverty reduction, and rising household incomes. An EU member since 2007, the country’s economic growth was one of the highest in the EU during the period 2010-2020. Like the rest …
Read More »Quad Infrastructure Diplomacy: An Attempt to Resist the Belt and Road Initiative
Artyom Garin Over the years, the competition between the great powers in the dual space of the Indian and Pacific Oceans has been rapidly increasing. In the face of the aggravation of relations between the PRC and the United States, the defence dimension of the rivalry between the …
Read More »Politics by Other Means: A Case Study of the 1991 Gulf War
Alan Cunningham War has been around since the dawn of man and is spawned by innate human characteristics. Often, when efforts at resolving conflicts fail diplomatically (be it at the nation or international level), war is what follows and seemingly the only other option. As Clausewitz, the famed …
Read More »The stalemate in negotiations on Serbia’s accession to the European Union brings Serbia ever closer to Russia and China
Giancarlo Valori Serbia has been waiting since 2012 for the European Union to respond to its application to become a full member of the EU. In spite of exhausting negotiations, this response is slow in coming and the main cause of the stalemate has a clear name: Kosovo. …
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