The History between the two countries goes a long way, since 1955 Moscow had provided military training and warfare material to Afghanistan and supported the PDPA, the at-the-time recently government installed upon Marxist ideology, which then split and whose more radical faction decided to improve relations with the U.S rather than following the soviet influence, these happenings eventually led to …

The EU and China signed a bilateral Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) in December 2020, after eight years of complex negotiations. The document, intends to provide international investors with broader market access, which will be enforced through state-to-state dispute resolution (Sapir, Dadush,2021) . Although, it does not  include investor protection (such as against expropriation), investor protection is covered by bilateral …

An unimaginable amount of people still confuses Taiwan, also known as Formosa, with mainland China, although their cultures seem very similar, they are in fact two very distinct countries. In order to understand the reasons for the growing hostility between the two of them we must go back to the origins, the first settlers on the island are thought to …

Earlier this month, tensions between Iran and Azerbaijan grew following Tehran’s large-scale military exercise near the Azeri border. This was aimed to show Iranian military capabilities to a neighbour accused, among others, of links with the West and especially with Tehran’s historic rival Israel (Motamedi, 2021). According to Iranian state media, the military drills started near Poldasht and Jolfa border …

Millions of individuals around the world suffer from malnutrition. Most of them come from countries that are linked directly with conflicts, as conflicts affect the food availability and accessibility by having a great impact on agricultural production, mainly through the destruction of infrastructure. Besides that, conflict causes security malfunctions related to the access to the markets and thus, as a …

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 …

Sixteen years have passed since the election of the first female Chancellor in Germany’s history, Merkel proved to be one of the longest-serving democratically-elected European leaders ever existed marking her decision to not seek re-election in 2021, it is the end of an era and it leaves everyone wondering what is going to happen next, as her strongest feature in …

It is commonly believed that in recent years North Korea has adopted a unique strategy and position in the field of international relations, acting irrationally and demonstrating an unreliable profile to the international community. The fact that North Korea possesses at least 30 warheads in its nuclear arsenal, along with its behaviour, causes disturbing thoughts regarding the expected decisions and …

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 – …

The confirmation of Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, of recent discussions with his Saudi counterpart, Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, in Baghdad (Iraq) last August (Al Jazeera, 2021) could be envisaged as a decades-long awaited catalyst for a directional change in the relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia. This would represent a major turning point not only for the diplomatic …