On the first of December 2021, the EU launched its new intiative the Global Gateway having for purpose to invest in the future, by helping developing countries with energy, digital, transport, education, health etc. This initiave follows the EU engagement taken in the COP21 and G7 commitments for Build Back Better World last June, meaning that this development needs to …

The election of the new Iranian President, the principlist Ibrahim Raisi on June 18th, 2021, has occurred in a crucial moment in which Iran and the West were engaged in ongoing technical negotiations aimed at reviving the nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Iran’s new President is trusted by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has …

Kazakhstan has been a peaceful country since it gained independence after the Soviet retreat, it has been considered a pillar of political and economic stability in an unstable region and it’s the 9th largest country in the world, bigger than Western Europe, moreover, it is extremely rich in mineral resources such as oil and gas. Recently, thousands of angry protesters …

A recent scandal has been sweeping across China concerning the coming 2022 Winter Olympics, the hosting country’s vice premier Zhang Gaoli who is the face of China’s organizing efforts ahead of the said event, has now found himself at the centre of an explosive #MeToo scandal that had the world calling for a boycott of the Games, what happened is …

BRICS – the acronym that has been widely circulated among international arena, is relatively a young union that has been formed in the beginning of the 2000s (Larionova and Kirton, 2018). Initially the acronym BRIC referred to the superpowers such as Brazil, Russia, India, China with S being added to the list in 2010 as South Africa joined the union …

COVID-19 has heightened tensions between China and the United States, placing Europe as the middleman. The EU has the tough challenge of managing its complex ties with Beijing and Washington so that the rule-based global order is not further jeopardized. However, to avoid getting stuck between the two powers, the EU should approach this war on its own by keeping …

France lost a contract approximately worth $68 billion to provide twelve conventionally-powered submarines to Australia following the signing of a military pact between the US, the UK and Australia. After the announcement on September 15, quickly voices in mainstream media on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean raised their outrage and concerns over this – as many conceived it – …

August 23, 2021 marked the day of launching the International Crimean Platform which has been initiated by the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky  as an international response and moreover, foreign policy instrument against the occupation of Crimea by Russia. The summit was solely dedicated to the illegal annexation of Crimea and to bringing the issue back in the agenda of the …

The 2020 US-brokered deal known as the Abraham Accords, marked an agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)[1] which included the diplomatic normalisation of relations as well as economic and trade relations between both states (Larsen, 2021). The deal allowed for the mutual opening of embassies, direct flights between the UAE and Israel and other bilateral deals. In …

The shifting agenda of world politics has led to a new reality of power, to what is called “soft power”, the concept that was first introduced in international relations by Nye (1990). Nye described soft power as an opposite to hard power that implies more aggressive forms including military actions from one country against another. Soft power in contrast, is …