Politics

Against the backdrop of the global COVID-19 pandemic, on 27 September 2020, Azerbaijan launched an offensive to reclaim the mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh. After Azerbaijani success on [...]

On 5 November this year Hacim Thaçi, President of Kosovo, publicly announced his resignation and flew to The Hague to face trial. Thaçi is accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity dating [...]

Czechs have voted in two elections in October – to the regional councils and to the Senate. While both elections are quite unpopular and voter turnout is consistently low, this year’s results of [...]

Following the resolution of an almost three-decades-long surreal name dispute with Greece, North Macedonia’s path to EU membership looked relatively optimistic. Until recently. On 17 November, [...]

Over the past two weeks two Georgias have voted, one country and one US state. While the world’s attention has been focused on the results in the US and the refusal of some to accept the election [...]

On the southeastern outskirts of the hilltop city of Shusha, a narrow street lined with the forlorn ruins of old stone houses gives way to an open grassy field. Walking in the direction of a [...]

Turkmenistan – a country largely ignored in International Relations, is actually a central piece of the natural gas geopolitical realm. After its independence, most of the country’s gas [...]

In the Channel 4 documentary Putin: A Russian Spy Story, Sanctions Coordinator at the US State Department, Dan Fried, notes at the end of the final episode that “once you have been king and done [...]

What take aways can the Cypriot crisis generate in regards to Moscow? Can a reinvigorated defence role of the EU create new opportunities for diplomatic solutions to regional crises?

Agnieszka Widlaszewska ponders over why the Russian government has remained relatively silent with regards to the ongoing protests in Belarus.