Russia is seeking to ensure it has a place at the table in Southeast Asia. Arms exports, as well as the lucrative energy business, seem to be key pillars of the Kremlin’s foreign policy in the...
William Maley, Australian National University In April 1961, just months after the young John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th president of the United States, his reputation for expertise in...
The West may consider Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko an “illegitimate leader”, but he continues to firmly rule the Eastern European country one year after the controversial...
When I was a little girl, my mom would call the domestic gas company and, about an hour later, a truck would come to replace the empty cylinder with a full one. In contrast, during my adult life, I...
Iraqi Kurds invariably become irked when others portray their autonomous region and nation as merely another interchangeable part of Iraq. Given their history, the legal status of their autonomy, and...
Vladimir Putin’s critics in the West accuse the Russian President of being obsessed with Ukraine. There are even fears that the Kremlin leader has imperial ambitions and aims to incorporate the...
From being one of Africa’s most stable republics, a place so functional that it rarely used to make international headlines, democracy in Zambia is taking a hit. In the run-up to general elections...
The world has yet to see the results of the Geneva summit between the US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Strategic stability, climate change, cybersecurity and the...
As the 13th presidential election takes place in three days, on June 18, the propaganda in the Islamic Republic is trying to show that Iranians will go to the polls to determine the fate of their...
Armenia – a landlocked Caucasus nation that effectively lost the war against its archenemy Azerbaijan in the fall of 2020 – is struggling to preserve remnants of its sovereignty. Faced with...
