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 …

For Australian government ministers to harness the economic benefits of refugees for both Australia and refugees’ host countries, the impediments of securing meaningful employment must be recognised and addressed. These include: the extensive time in Australia’s offshore detention centres which not only reduces education and employment capabilities but also costs the Australian government over A$400,000 a year per person (Button …

The fall of Kabul to the Taliban came as a shock to most observers. Besides the unknown future awaiting the Afghan population, especially the female part of it, which rose quickly to the attention of the international community, French President Emmanuel Macron warned of a new wave of refugees to the EU (Euronews, 2021). Another recent example where a government …

A potentially tide-changing development has been taking place in Albania in recent times. Tirana and Ankara are keen on increasing their cooperation in various areas from security to trade and investments, however,  in particular in the defense and military sector (Exit News, 2021). For later this year, a state visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is planned as the …

The Twin Towers attacks on the United States made Afghanistan an important foreign policy concern of the US and started a military campaign against the Al-Qaeda and the Taliban government. During the period of about more than eighteen years, the US has lost 2,400 military personnel in Afghanistan as of April 30, 2020. The US has also spent $137 billion …

The United Nations (UN) and African Union (AU) are quickly reaching a crossroads on how to collectively support multilateral peace operations on this immense continent plagued on all sides by bloody conflicts of unprecedented violence. Rising levels of political violence across Africa are joined fragile peace agreements, a precarious macroeconomic environment, and a growing reliance on counter-terrorism efforts. Unless rectified, …

The whole Brexit process has been an earthquake, which has shaken the foundations of the relationship that the European Union and the United Kingdom had been able to forge. Brexit has threatened to be a significant turning point for both parties involved, changing the way of living of millions, ranging from Brits who live in EU Member States, to European …

The special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom has experienced different periods of closeness but also of more distance. Nonetheless, one of the moments, which have extremely influenced this relationship is the signing of the original Atlantic Charter, as it was the structural document, which enabled this transatlantic relationship to be created. The importance of this charter …

Last month, the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Felix Tshisekedi,  announced he planned to renegotiate mining contracts signed by his predecessor, Joseph Kabila, with special attention to those with China. Tshisekedi complained that contracts have put the population and the state at a disadvantage losing out on the mineral wealth of the country (Africanews, 2021). In 2007, …

The fundament of the West’s rule of law promising equality before the law to every citizen of a liberal-democratic state has been the idea of the emancipation of the individual from subordinating oneself to a group and being subjugated by restrictive customs, laws and authorities (Ball, 2021). Basic rights include the freedom of thought, belief, political opinion as well as …