Before taking on this task in 2023, he worked in various political functions: as long-time Head of Office for Guido Westerwelle and as State Secretary in the Foreign Office. He gained business ...

When and why are international rules binding? Focusing on questions of state security, The Fog of Law considers the nature of obligation in international law. In so doing, it challenges the prevailing ...

High Caucasus is Tom Parfitt's wonderfully atmospheric memoir-cum-travel narrativeabout the 1,000-mile walk he made to lay to rest a ghost. On the 1 September 2004, at the Beslan siege in Russia when ...

As the broader Eurasian region navigates a period of profound geopolitical transformation, the realignment of alliances and ...

A radical shift took place after Aleksander Kwaśniewski was elected president of Poland in 1995. As a result of his vision of Ukraine as a strategic partner and of good personal relations with ...

For some time, Ukraine is likely to host frozen conflicts, in Crimea and the Donbas region. Elections last Sunday in the Russian-armed, rebel-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine reinforced this.

Riyadh—The devastating war in Yemen is turning into a costly quagmire for Saudi Arabia, which has been leading a coalition of nine Arab states on a risky military venture since March to crush ...

In a new publication on the relationship between Russia and Venezuela, Russian scholar Vladimir Rouvinski argues that U.S. sanctions against Rosneft Trading, SA, imposed in February 2020, “jeopardize ...

This paper is a continuation of the series Building Resilient Communities in Mexico: Civic Responses to Crime and Violence, a multiyear effort by the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson ...

The escalating tensions between India and Pakistan have received renewed attention of late. Since their genesis in 1947, the nations of India and Pakistan have been locked in a seemingly endless ...

In 2004, hundreds of thousands of Ukranian protestors mobilized in the streets of Kyiv against authoritarian rulers who had clearly falsified the Fall elections. The size and efficacy of the Orange ...

Matjaž Klemencic is Professor of History at the University of Maribor and President of the Board of Advisors at the Institute for Ethnic Studies in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He spoke at an EES Noon ...