Berlin is seeking to expand its geopolitical focus across European boundaries and into the Indo-Pacific. The agenda is ambitious: to alter China’s hegemonic aspirations and secure future German prosperity. Tension in the Indo-Pacific The Indo-Pacific region is currently witnessing a...
Kosovo and Serbia have both thrashed out an agreement, hailed by US President Donald Trump as a “major breakthrough.” The deal has reaffirmed pledges to establish highway and railway links but left progress toward political normalization on hold. Details of...
Turkey is one of the countries that benefited the most from Ukraine’s Euromaidan. Since 2014 it has been working hard on turning a geopolitically ambitious and groundbreaking goal into reality: to make Ukraine part of the Eurasia-extended Turkish world. The...
During a NATO exercise on Friday, an inciting incident occurred over the Baltic Sea. A Russian fighter jet chased a US bomber into Danish airspace. Only when the Danes sent their F-16 jets into the air did the Russian plane...
Following the poisoning of Russian opposition politician and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday that the Kremlin critic was poisoned with a Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent in an attempt to murder him. Navalny’s Current Status...
Lebanon has been in turmoil since a massive explosion rocked the Beirut port on August 4. This blast, which was blamed on a neglected stockpile of ammonium nitrate, has shaken the tiny country to its core. It has caused widespread...
Lebanon has been plunged into one crisis after another, beginning with mass protests and economic turmoil and recently with the explosion in Beirut that killed more than 220 and destroyed vast amounts of infrastructure. As a result, the entire cabinet...
A new book by Wall Street Journal reporters Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck exposes the blatant hypocrisy and corruption of Saudi politics and its crown prince, deputy prime minister and minister of defense Mohammad bin Salman (MBS). Welcome to the...
Tensions between French President Emmanuel Macron and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have been escalating since June following an incident involving a French frigate near the coast of Libya. The ship was there to enforce a NATO arms embargo and...
The recent visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to Lebanon has forced political leaders there to increase their efforts to select a new prime minister following the resignation of former PM Hassan Diab. The aftermath of the Beirut explosion has...