Eurasia

Iran played a key role in helping form the new Iraqi government. Iraq’s new government under Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani is likely to be on better terms with Iran than the previous government. The Coordination Framework, the coalition which brought Sudani to office last week, and which consists of …

The Russian military closed the so-called “grain corridor” used to ship Ukrainian agriculture products through the Black Sea on Monday. The move was provoked by the actions of Ukraine, which used the route to launch attacks on Russia, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

MBS’s Vision of a New Nonaligned Movement On October 5, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its ten partner states agreed to slash oil production by two million barrels per day. The decision was at once predictable and shocking. It was predictable because OPEC+, under the leadership of …

The Kremlin Won’t Go Down Without a Fight At a White House ceremony on August 9, days after the U.S. Senate agreed in a near-unanimous vote to ratify the expansion of NATO to include Finland and Sweden, U.S. President Joe Biden highlighted how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had backfired on …

US sanctions as a weapon of war are having an unexpected affect. Russia, China, and Iran are developing alternative routes of trade and finance, and cooperation with other nations. Perhaps the biggest product of sanctions has been to encourage the rapid development of BRICS plus, now a very strategically important …

In the last couple months, Ukraine has successfully pushed back against Russia’s invading forces. It retook a large chunk of territory around the northeastern city of Kharkiv. It is on the verge of recapturing the only major city—Kherson in the south—that Russia has occupied since February. Ukrainian forces have also …

Received a lot of concerned questions from people all across Europe as to the current explosive situation in Bosnia & Herzegovina People are in shock as they just simply cannot understand the fact that the international community facilitated this backstabbing of the Bosnian people: for the second time in almost …

October 28, 2022, The Right Honorable Justin Trudeau, P.C., M.P. Prime Minister of Canada 80 Wellington Street Ottawa, ON, K1A 0A2 Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, Srebrenica genocide denial constitutes the incitement of hate, and hate has no place in Canada. We’re deeply concerned by the scheduled screening of Boris Malagurski’s …

The promotion of Alden Pervan’s book Dayton Agreement: Short-term redemption or long-term tragedy was organized by the Bosnian Academy of Sciences and Arts “Kulin ban”. The moderator was dr. Muhamed Šemoski, who at the very beginning of the promotion referred to the book, and especially to the biography of Master …

The Russo-Ukrainian War has significant and underappreciated implications for deglobalization, Russia’s relations with the West, and the international system. THE WAR in Ukraine will have several underappreciated, long-term implications for the future of international relations. For one, it will spur deglobalization, especially in the energy and food sectors. The war …