Georgia is located on the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. It lays at the eastern end of the Black Sea, with Turkey and Armenia to the south, Azerbaijan to the east, and Russia to the north, over the Caucasus Mountains.The capital and largest city of Georgia is Tbilisi. Georgia’s total territory covers 69,700 square kilometers (26,911 sq mi). Its approximate population is …

The relations between China and Europe has been fostered since the since the second century BC, when the China’s Emperor exchanged silk for “celestial horses of Ferghana” to maintain his army (Boulnois, 2010). Even if the silk trade was forbidden outside of the Middle Kingdom, such traffic allowed the worlds of East and West to meet through the creation of …

Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the announcement of new sanctions on the Russian Federation from the United States, for meddling in the US elections and for threatening the sovereignty of Ukraine, bring up memories from the past (Hunnicat et al, 2021). However, the world has changed dramatically from the bipolarity of the second half of the …

Since the treaty of Nice in 2001, the European Union created the European Politcy of Common Security (known as the EPCS), led by the high representative of external policies, previously Ravier Solana. But we can’t properly speak about an European army, and what is displayed is more an orientation strategy, like the Strategy of Security in 2003 that identifies the …

It is the moment that all the grunting and yelling has been leading up to. Few doubted the United States and Iran deep-down preferred diplomacy — even a new deal — to escalating tensions, and possibly military confrontation. Now the moment of truth is here, in a Vienna conference room, where the E3+2 of the nuclear deal (UK, France, Germany, …

President Donald Trump’s stunning decision to meet Kim Jong Un sets up the prospect of the most mind-boggling diplomatic summit in modern history. Trump, a reality star turned convention busting President, has dubbed Kim “Little Rocket Man” and threatened to rain fire and fury over North Korea, raising fears of a devastating war across the world’s last Cold War frontier. …

Russia is in favor of an open and rules-based trade order to boost global growth, and sanctions imposed against Moscow are a “covert form” of protectionism, President Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying on Thursday ahead of a G20 summit in Germany. “I’m convinced that only open trade relations based on uniform norms and standards can stimulate growth of the …

The companies Nexter, ex-Giat Industries, in France, and KMW (Krauss MaffeiWegmann), in Germany, have started to merge on July 1. This will require a privatisation law in France,while KMW is a family-owned business. They will form a joint-venture owned at 50% by each side, with a « golden share » for the French state to protect specific activities such as weapons systems …