Haifa Peerzada | Kashmir is at a very crucial juncture at present. Symptoms should be cured and the cure of all the symptoms is resolution of the Kashmir dispute. An involvement and concern in this from the US would require careful handling and that is possible only when J&K has a proper government in place. Continue reading
Effie Seiti | The Eastern Mediterranean is in a crossroad of regional rivalry including a growing naval presence. This confirms that the new dynamics in the strategic environment created a progressive globalization of Mediterranean Security. Continue reading
In absence of a comprehensive and multileveled strategy with clearly defined aims, airstrikes cannot be effective . Continue reading
Ioannis-Sotirios Ioannou | The Russian involvement in Syria seems to be aiming at securing the vital, for Assad, sea lane rather than generalizing the conflict. It remains to be seen whether further pressure on Sunni insurgents will give rise to a new form of conflict around Latakia Continue reading
Zenonas Tziarras | By solidifying its foothold in the Middle East and Syria in particular, Moscow seeks not only to alter Syria’s domestic balance of power. Continue reading
Zenonas Tziarras |Turkey has over the past months became a cause of concern for the international community and brought back memories from 2003. Continue reading
Konstantinos Myrodias and Panos Chatzinikolaou | How much different is a ‘Western’ mechanism of financial support than a BRICS’ or a Russian one? Greece should think twice before getting involved in a very dangerous game, with everything to lose and nothing to gain. Continue reading
Zenonas Tziarras | The revisionist foreign policies of Turkey and Saudi Arabia which aim at altering the regional status quo for their own benefit, along with their delusions of grandeur render their collaboration a temporary and ephemeral one. Continue reading
Ioana Cerasella Chis | Power-relations within the system of imperialist white supremacist patriarchy involve the mobilisation of modernising technologies and techno-utopian policies marketed as the solution for unilinear development and progress. Continue reading
That these elections are unpredictable and will definitely be decided in a two-round election. Continue reading
A Fresh Perspective On International Affairs
One could be led to believe that it all started in 2013 with the election of Hassan Rouhani to the presidency of Iran. Rouhani, along with his moderate and reformist agenda, bore much optimism among Western countries that Iran might shift direction towards a more pragmatic and less anti-Western foreign policy. But this was not what put Iran to the epicenter of the Middle East. Continue reading
Zenonas Tziarras | Power Struggle over Ukraine | The GW Post
The Syrian civil war and now Ukraine. These are only two examples of crises over which the United States and Russia have bumped heads recently. Some might be tempted to call this a “new Cold War,” but it’s really not. What we have now is a primarily intra-systemic, capitalist, geo-economic competition fueled and exacerbated by identity politics, history and national security considerations. Continue reading
Nikos Moudouros | The “Cypriot Version” of the AKP Model. | The GW Post
Cyprus and specifically the northern territories have been transformed to an “input field” of the Turkish-Islamic modernization. Continue reading
Andreas Themistocleous, Securitizing Migration: Aspects and Critiques| Research Paper May 2013 | The GW Post
This paper examines the phenomenon of migration and attempts to answer the question of whether migration is a securitization product, and to what extent does the securitization process cause political and / or ethical implications.
Jason Iliou | Syriza and possibly Podemos, will severely diminish conservative economic policies spearheaded by Germany, and even if Greece is too small of an economy to be able to stand tall, Spain isn’t. Continue reading
Alexander Miller Tate | Any blame for a resurgence of violence influenced by mental health factors lies squarely with those who caused the trauma, and those who failed to adequately respond to it. Ergo, efforts to identify and treat mental health issues as a matter of urgency in the early stages of post-conflict transition should be a policy priority. Such efforts should be subject to further empirical investigation. Continue reading
Marianna Karakoulaki |The ICC might not have the diplomatic ability or power it should, yet the way it will treat the Palestinian issue will most probably determine the future of the peace process as all sides will have to re-evaluate their approaches. Continue reading
Ioana Cerasella Chis | Human rights are more than mere fictions materialised solely through the law. Indeed, they have a real impact on people’s lives (albeit in different ways), and many social struggles are undertaken outside the law, in the name of human rights. Continue reading
