Azerbaijan seems to be waiting for an opportunity to restore its sovereignty over parts of Nagorno-Karabakh that are still under the ethnic Armenians’ control. Harsh threats from Baku suggest that...
Vladimir Putin is undoubtedly one of the weakest leaders Russia has ever had. Although he may have succeeded in preserving formal power following the mutiny by Wagner group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin,...
Kazakhstan's foreign policy represents a constant balance between the country’s traditional ties with Russia and its economic cooperation with China. But the Russian invasion of Ukraine has allowed...
Tensions in northern Kosovo could have serious consequences for the local Serbs who make up the majority of the population in the region. Instrumentalized, abandoned, and betrayed by Belgrade, they...
The Russian Federation cannot project authority over parts of its territory and peoples, and it cannot protect its national boundaries. As such, Russia is a de facto failed state, even though its...
Like many lower-middle-income countries, Jordan embraced the ideals of free market capitalism that characterized the globalization era of the 1990s and first decade of the 2000s. Jordan was the first...
The barriers to obtain an identity document as a Venezuelan are getting higher every day, and new changes made by the government are only exacerbating the problem. For those who know how bureaucratic...
Two and a half years after Armenia and Azerbaijan ended the 44-day war they fought over Nagorno-Karabakh, Yerevan seems to have completely relinquished the mountainous region that was under the...
While Ukraine prepares to launch a large-scale counteroffensive against the Russian forces in the southeast of the country, the Kremlin-linked Wagner Group is reportedly eyeing up the Sudan conflict....
While the world awaits Ukraine’s spring or summer counteroffensive against the Russian forces in the southeast of the war-torn country, Moscow, Kyiv and the West seem to be preparing the ground for...