Iranian and Pakistani Foreign Ministers Hossein Amirabdollahian and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari emphasized enhancing all-round relations and developing economic cooperation and bilateral trade. Amirabdollahian highlighted the need to finalize agreements on exchanging prisoners and addressing unauthorized border crossings. The Iranian top diplomat emphasized the importance of implementing the positive agreements achieved …

‘Binary divisions’ are common in international politics, where two opposite sides view the other through a ‘zero-sum game’ mentality. For other countries, it always poses a dilemma—closeness with one country would not be seen positively by its rival. India has witnessed the United States/West–Russia (former Soviet Union) rivalry, which has …

Suspensions, Detentions, and Mutinies: the Growing Gulf in Russia’s Civil-Military RelationsThe war in Ukraine is challenging the military’s established role in Russian domestic affairs, politicizing the armed forces, and reducing their privileged autonomy in waging war and developing the defense sector.Russian civil-military relations are in crisis. Last month, the Wagner …

It is in both countries’ interests to cooperate, since each can provide the other with something in short supply: Russia needs artillery shells for its war, while North Korea needs humanitarian aid.The extensive media coverage of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu’s recent visit to Pyongyang contained two main messages: that …

Imagining history as a civilizational competition is convenient for the current Russian leadership because it means they can perceive themselves as part of a young civilization and, as such, they don’t need to calculate risks, invest in the economy, or conduct a reasonable foreign policy. Youth is forgiven everything, and …

Elsewhere, Poland continues to talk tough over preventing Ukrainian grain from flooding its market; radicalised Czech pensioners rise up, again; Slovak paediatricians to no longer take on shifts in children’s emergency rooms from next week. Hungarian PM Viktor Orban did not make the international headlines with this year’s speech in …

A dispute about engraving civilians’ names on a monument to deceased fighters in a small Kosovo town highlighted a wider problem: although most people killed in the 1998-99 war were civilians, most war memorials commemorate guerrillas. For more than 20 years, the name of Adem Ahmetaj’s nephew Jeton could be …

One of many crowdfunded initiatives that have sprouted up to help Ukraine since Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian Action has just delivered its 200th vehicle filled with humanitarian supplies.The conflict in Ukraine has come to be known as the “crowdfunded war”, as volunteers from around the world use social media to raise …

Auditors have flagged “anomalies” worth almost 14 million euros in deals between a Serbian arms factory and a Belgian machinery manufacturer, BIRN can report. In 2017, in the southwestern Serbian town of Pozega, President Aleksandar Vucic cut the ribbon on a factory built to produce ammunition. “Out of nothing, out …

Est-ce que le président français actuel est un bon stratège politique ? À l’aune de la déroute de la France au Niger, au Sahel et plus largement sur le continent africain tant sur le point humain, militaire, et géopolitique, la question se pose. Une alliance de pays africains contre la …