100 Years after Partition: Is Irish Re-Unification in Sight?
24.06.2021
The centenary of the Northern Irish state comes amidst a deep crisis of unionism in the north and talk of a United Ireland growing across the island by the day.
Europe
(Not) Lost in Foresight
03.06.2021
From the perspective of policymakers, planning for the many uncertainties that the future brings is a complicated task.
The New East-West Cold War: Ukraine and the NATO-Russian Western Theater
20.05.2021
A popular theory that for the most part works I democratic peace theory, which holds that democracies do not go to war against each other. Democracies and authoritarian or totalitarian regimes go to war against each other. Authoritarian and/or totalitarian regimes do so as well. The United States is undergoing a de-democratization and could become a regime that is more authoritarian than democratic during the Biden-Harris administration’s first term—something similar to what happened in the mid-2000s in Russia under Vladimir Putin. Add to this the authoritarian character of Washington’s two main adversaries and you have not a burgeoning democratic peace but a new East-West, not Russia-West ‘new cold war.’
Britannia Unchanged Post-Brexit
18.05.2021
In 2012, a group of Conservative MPs wrote the now-infamous book, Britannia Unchained, where they claimed to have examined the conditions for Britain to thrive amid increasingly intense global competition.
Open letter from retired military: a plot against the Republic?
13.05.2021
In three years, France has gone through two major crises that have not been answered: the questioning of globalization by the Gilets jaunes and the disintegration of the State by the police unions.
The EU Parliament’s Anti-Russian Resolution Is Dangerous
30.04.2021
Russia is a major world power, and if the EU can attempt to bully it in such a dangerous way, then there’s nothing stopping the bloc from doing the same to comparatively weaker countries.
The Geopolitics of Mediterranean Natural Gas
22.04.2021
Over the last two decades, a series of major natural gas discoveries in the eastern Mediterranean have had a profound impact on the international relations of the region.
Violent Conflict Between Loyalists and Republicans Could Make a Comeback in Ireland
20.04.2021
From April 2 (Good Friday) to April 10, there were nonstop violent demonstrations in Northern Ireland, everyday with Irish Catholic nationalists (who want to reunify with the Republic of Ireland) and British-Irish loyalists or unionists (who
Ukraine: Frozen Conflict Is Hotting Up
08.04.2021
The terrible beauty of “frozen conflicts” is that it takes hardly any effort to turn up the heat and re-escalate them into hot violence, but pressing the “pause” button later would need consensus, which is not so easy.
