GEOPOLITICS

Bird’s-Eye View of the 9th AIPA Caucus Meeting :The ballroom was abuzz with foreign parliamentarians and staff preparing for the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) 2017 caucus. Interpreter booths, cameras, and ...

It goes without saying that the regional security outlook invariably suggest that a nation shall always re-consider its approach or strategy for its own survival, especially on its foreign policy ...

Part 2 : This policy paper suggests a two-fold strategy for the Russian Federation over Nagorno Karabakh, one for the short-term, another one for the long-term. In the short-run, a ...

The current race for control of territory in Syria now appears to be a competition between Iran and the United States, which have established two respective axes – with a ...

Little did Gambians know that the 22-year brutal rule they had gone through under former tyrant Yahya Jammeh would come to an abrupt end in the December 1, 2016 presidential ...

The Israel Defense Forces recently completed a large military exercise on the island of Cyprus, and a smaller training exercise in Crete was held several months earlier. Although the commanders ...

There are no doubt that Africa’s militant Islamist groups like Ansar al-Sharia, AL-SHABAB, AQIM, The Movement for Monotheism and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) and Boko Haram have undoubtedly benefited ...

Netanyahu’s unexpected confrontation with US Jews The meeting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had with Jerry Silverman, the CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America, on June 27 failed ...

Tensions flare between IDF, UN peacekeepers in Lebanon More and more voices in Israel are saying that the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has become a burden and ...

On June 23, Iranian hard-liners once again attacked moderate President Hassan Rouhani, but this time was different. A group of hard-liners approached the president and chanted harsh slogans while he ...