First published in the Serbian Strategic Review, Nr. 5, 2023 By Dr. Panagiotis Sfaelos The war in Ukraine has created a new geopolitical reality where energy security is fundamental for the future of Europe. Already, there is an energy and food crisis in Europe as a result of the war and the hard […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said Russia was ready to negotiate with all parties involved in the war in Ukraine but that Kyiv and its Western backers had refused to engage in talks.
By Dr. Stephen Nagy & Dr. Phar Kim Beng In the middle of April 2019, it was announced by Google that the first subsea cable, known as the TOPAZ cable, would connect Asia and Canada. The cable will likely be finished by 2023 and will travel from Vancouver to the Japanese cities of Mie and Ibaraki.
In today’s global strategic environment, Russia is one of the international system’s major players along with the US and China. Its national power encompasses formidable military, intelligence, and technological capabilities, as well as the world’s largest nuclear arsenal and an assertive diplomatic projection that relies on asymmetric equalizers and force multipliers. Likewise, the Kremlin has […]
By Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat The year 2023 will be a new chapter for bilateral relations between Qatar and Indonesia with the appointment of Indonesia as a partner country for a key annual event organized by Qatar, namely the Qatar Year of Culture.
By Jose Miguel Alonso-Trabanco To say that the early 21st century is a turbulent era is an understatement. In the last two decades, the international system has experienced the incremental reactivation and intensification of geopolitical rivalries. As any historian can attest, such phenomenon is hardly surprising in the grand scheme of things. In this respect, […]
By Jose Miguel Alonso-Trabanco As a great power that has risen from the ashes of the former Soviet Union, Russia has gone to great lengths to restore its geopolitical hegemony in the post-Soviet space in order to rollback Western influence, enhance its national security, overturn a correlation of forces regarded as detrimental, and rewrite European […]
By Jay Maniyar Japan is a key security-oriented actor in the regional and global domains and has played a rather influential role across the entire seaboard of the Asian continent. As an avowed promoter of a free and open Indo-Pacific strategy (F&OIP), Japan is poised to encompass the maritime domain not just because it is a […]
By Jose Miguel Alonso-Trabanco As a great power that has risen from the ashes of the former Soviet Union, Russia has gone to great lengths to restore its geopolitical hegemony in the post-Soviet space in order to rollback Western influence, enhance its national security, overturn a correlation of forces regarded as detrimental, and rewrite European security […]
By Csaba Barnabas Horvath China has been seen by many as the most important ally of Russia in the invasion of Ukraine. However, after nearly two weeks of fighting, confusing episodes have been culminating around China’s attitude to the war. Regarding both the UN Security Council and General Assembly resolutions, China has abstained rather than voted […]
