It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, ...
The third and fourth sections of Russia’s “South Stream” will be completed by 2018. However, supranational structures in Brussels and their representatives in Berlin still cannot set forth a predictable and unified position on this project of undisputed geopolitical importance. Bureaucratic hurdles like “Third Energy Package” or even more mysteriou...
For some, Turkey is undergoing something like Arab Spring or Occupy Movement and for some it is subjected to an internationally-supported conspiracy similar to color revolutions that developed in several societies in the former Soviet Union and the Balkans during the early 2000s. According to Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan and his supporters, Turkish...
“IS IT FOR TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH? AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTHSO GOD HELPS US!”I thought that it will be very essential to start writing a series of articles shedding the light on what i believe is true or false regarding the current situation in Egypt and the middle east, faithfully refuting all what I believe should be considered or...
In the last months, the relations of the greatest geopolitical foes - China and Japan became much more strained over the "Senkaku Islands", under authority of Japan. Due to demands of an official Beijing, mentioned islands are belong to the Chinese people. Immediately after such kind of accidents China has determined to continue gathering s...
Some parallels exist between the rebels’ situation in Syria and Libya – but also a difference that create two modals for an uprising. Can Iran follow one of them too?The effect of the Arab earthquakeIt began in the squares: Tahrir, Manama, Peral, Bourguiba Avenue. The Tunisians, Egyptians, Libyans and Syrians marched to the squares ...
In the last years the Circassian Question re-appeared across the mainstream media, especially after the 4th of July 2007 when in Guatemala City Russia won the organization of the Sochi Winter Olympics 2014. Georgia, which fought against Russia in the Five Day War of August 2008, was in the last few years an important ally to the Circassian ethnon...
A lot of people around the world are wondering these days how Turkey was able to jump from bottom to the top within a decade and became a shining star of the region. It seems a miracle: starting from a terrible situation it faced with the eruption of 2001 crisis, but ending with a brighter than ever outlook. When the country cleared its external debts to...
Good management of a conflict can reduce the losses, even it may create positive results. Mismanagement of the conflict may increase losses, or it may bring irreparable results. This is why Galtung defines conflict as the sum of the crisis and opportunities.[1] In this context, the start of negotiations with the PKK is a very important step in th...
Nagorno-Karabakh, regarded as the heart of the South Caucasus, is appropriate as the scene of political and economic movements because of its strategic location and undefined status.Due to the ongoing Armenian occupation, Armenia and its close allies have flexibility in pursuing their policies in the region and as a result, we are witnessing ...
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