How COVID- 19 weakened American leadership
Unlike Hollywood movies where Americans have the lead in saving the world, the crisis of the corona virus pandemic has shown the opposite. The first major test showed that the American health care system...
Category: Europe
Livid Russia expels 20 Czechs after blast blamed on Skripal suspects
Moscow expelled 20 Czech diplomats on Sunday in a confrontation over Czech allegations that two Russian spies accused of a nerve agent poisoning in Britain in 2018 were behind an earlier explosion at a...
Official Russian military build-up near Ukraine numbers more than 100,000 troops, EU says
More than 100,000 Russian troops have massed on Ukraine’s border and in annexed Crimea, the office of the EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell said after EU foreign ministers were briefed by Ukraine’s foreign minister....
ASEAN calls summit on Myanmar crisis as EU imposes sanctions
Southeast Asian countries will discuss the crisis in Myanmar at a summit in Jakarta on Saturday, the ASEAN bloc’s secretariat said on Tuesday, but Thailand’s prime minister said several will be represented only by...
Biden administration is facing “Either Democracy and Human Rights or National Interests”
The US President Joe Biden has explicitly declared, in Munich security conference, the worldwide democratization as an indispensable objective of his foreign policy. Fulfilment of national interest is undoubtedly an inherent part of all...
Alexei Navalny: “Prepared to Lose Everything”
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The near-murder of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny last August, his return to Moscow in January, and the resultant protests attended by tens of thousands in more than a hundred Russian cities raise the question...
France and Pakistan – Stained Ties
In France, tensions over Islam have gathered some attention in recent times. Almost 4,000 military troops were deployed in Nice, a city in France, to boost security at schools, churches, and other public places;...
India-EU Human Rights Dialogue: A recapitulation
The 9th India-European Union Human Rights dialogue concluded on 12th April 2020. The official statement released by the Ministry of External Affairs stated that the dialogue was in accordance with the decision taken at...
Vienna Process: Re-visiting and Re-thinking the Euro-MED
On the historic date of March 08th – International Women’s Day, a large number of international affairs specialists gathered for the second consecutive summit in Vienna, Austria. This leg of the Vienna Process titled:...
Financiers of the Belarusian Dictator
Protests in Belarus continue, and opposition leaders mostly fled from the country, are busy calculating and looking for funds that the Belarusian dictator Lukashenko annually withdraws from the budget of his Republic. Meanwhile, information...
