The main topic of the week has been the celebration of 50 years of liberation war victory against Pakistan, that was a war which involved terrible atrocities against the civilian population, so much so that, to this day, certain data remain obscure regarding the actual number of victims and perpetrators, also to remain unknown are the lasting scars of the …

In these days we have witnessed the increasing of Russia’s military presence in the area next to the Eastern Ukraine border. Russia has built up several logistic centres hosting troops, armed vehicles, air forces and naval personnel. The Russian government justifies its presence at the border saying that it is part of the military exercise they are currently conducting; in …

The 1957 Treaty of Rome set out measures to build a single market through the liberalisation of trade within the European Economic Community. This document also included complementary social measures aimed at improving the living and working conditions of Europeans, maintaining high wages, addressing the imbalances caused by the restructuring of certain economic sectors and equal working conditions for men …

If the Ukrainian and Crimean crises are still a cause for concern in the eyes of the European Union and the United States, it is certain that the challenge launched by Russia to the world in this century is no longer military or ideological, but a global economic challenge. Nobody, a few years ago, believed that the Eurasian economic Union …

In order to understand the recent happenings between Pakistan and Afghanistan as well as the very root of their relationship, it is mandatory to take a look and their past history, in fact, in the 1890s, the British drew a frontier between Afghanistan and their Indian Empire which came to be known as the Durand Line, keep in mind that …

Once again Turkey finds itself in a currency crisis, In fact, the lira lost more than 40 percent of its value against the United States dollar this year, making it the worst-performing of all emerging market currencies, In November alone, the lira lost nearly 30 percent of its value against the dollar and, sinceTurkish businesses that depend on imported goods …

In 2019, the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed received the Nobel Peace Prize and was regarded as a regional peacemaker but recently, oddly enough for a Nobel peace prize winner, he has been accused of presiding a protracted civil war that bears the hallmarks of genocide, the displaced people are countless as are the hundreds of thousands of people living …

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 …

China expresses unwillingness to participate in nuclear arms control talks along with the United States and Russia, due to its relatively smaller nuclear arsenal. That’s why it tries to promote a bilateral approach between the U.S. and Russia regarding the nuclear disarmament procedure and at the same time it promises to consider its participation in the negotiations when the two …

Besides the common culture, religion and social values, Morocco and Algeria maintain a mutual mistrust, a lack of political will and essential arguments over the Sahara, since their political independence in 1956 and 1962 respectively. They have competing narratives and lack of recognition for the other side. The long disputes that activate the tensions and conflict between them is the …