On October 10th, 2021, parliamentary elections were hold in the war-scarred country Iraq, the fifth since the US-led invasion and overthrow of ruler Saddam Hussein in 2003 that gave rise to a complex multi-party system characterized by opposing groups mainly defined by sect or ethnicity. This years’ elections were expected to be an answer to the most compelling issues that …

A few days ago, a protest of Hezbollah group, along with its ally, the Shi’it Amal Movement, took place in Beirut against the lead judge investigating last year’s huge explosion at Beirut’s port. Due to this incident, 6 people were killed and about 25 have been injured, according to the Red Cross. The protestors gathered outside the Justice Palace and …

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 …

The summer of  2021 has been a tumultuous one for both the Haitian people and their government, precisely on July 7th, a bunch of individuals who were armed broke into the private residency of the soon to be ex Haitian president Jovenel Moïse and managed to kill him mercilessly by shooting him, leaving a country without its lead and shocking …

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 …

Nine months into his presidency, Joe Biden is in political trouble. After four years of chaos under Donald Trump’s mandate, in 2020, after a successful electoral campaign, Joe Biden was elected president of the United States of America as the most voted candidate among young people between the age 18-24 as well as 25-29, a clear sign that the younger …

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 …

In the contemporary era, nations open their doors to other nations to carry out economic transactions globally. That is why international trade law is being developed.  In this sense, economies tend to be cashless, which leads to being digital in every aspect. As a result, Cryptocurrency is one of the examples of such digital tendency (Gamble, 2017).  However, its dynamic …

  One of the original achievements of European integration was to create a Union of states characterized by the absence of conflicts both between the member states and with third-party states, which have shaped European history for many decades. Ever since its rise the Ottoman Empire has been one of these third-party actors. This makes it clear that the only …

On the 31st of May 2021, China announced its 3-child policy in an attempt to address the challenges associated with it ageing population. The decision comes weeks after the release of the latest census results which predicts a rapidly ageing population and decreasing population of economically active (The Economist, 2021). Indeed, last year, China’s births fell to their lowest in …