After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, NATO invoked Article 5 and the US declared war against terrorism. Then came the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 and Iraq in March 2003. A few years into the war, the initial shock of the tragedy faded away so, the public support for the intervention against Al – […]
Europe’s energy dependence is no longer a secret, as is the fact that most of the gas and oil imports are of Russian origin. Russia has used its energetic supremacy with great skill, managing to wield this strategic advantage in order to fulfill its geopolitical aspirations. Some European countries have fared better than others under […]
In the beginning, the Arab Spring was a game of chess. All of the pieces were on the chessboard when Bouazizi made his first move in Tunisia two years ago. At the dawn of each revolution there were many hopes at stake, because those involved believed that their life will be different at the end […]
If you asked somebody a month ago about In Amenas, few would have probably known even where it was on the map. But for about two weeks now, the world has been paying attention to this small town in eastern Algeria. This is because of the four day siege at the gas plant there that […]
From the point of view of international relations the Caucasus is a “subregional security complex” for Europe, being at the same time coagulated around a zero sum relationship (Armenia and Azerbaijan) to which are added relations of circumstantial cooperation/competition between Armenia and Georgia or Azerbaijan and Georgia. All of these states being consumers of security, […]
The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization that claims it is committed to improving the state of the world. As an effort to succeed in its mission, the WEF publishes regularly a series of reports concerning global issues. In the beginning of January 2013 the World Economic Forum published a report entitled Global […]
The Doha Development Agenda is the ninth WTO multilateral trade round of negotiations launched in Doha, Qatar in November 2001 that was to be concluded by early 2005. Some of the main points on the agenda were reduction of barriers in the services sector, environmental issues, and freer trade in agricultural goods. Moreover, Doha was […]
One of my dearest geopolitics professors used to say that women are the most important resource of any country, but a resource frequently overlooked in geopolitical analysis and in the shaping of strategies. Most often, when this vital resource is taken into account, it is only done so by assessing the demographic potential of regeneration […]
In an interview in Grand Millennium Hotel Al Wahda in Abu Dhabi, during a press conference occasioned by the 41th anniversary of the UAE National Day, Dr Anwar Gargash, minister of state with the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs, presented the current main issues on the foreign policy agenda of the UAE. Made available as exclusivity […]
From our geopolitical analysis, we selected 5, which we considered them to be the most interesting. You can read them by clicking on their headline. Number 5 Puerto Rico. A possible remodeling of Western Hemisphere geopolitics. The United States of America has a new President in the person of former American President and the […]