GLOBAL ISSUES

Dr. Manju Dagar (Manu Chaudhary)
(RIEAS Senior Advisor)

Copyright: @ 2025 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 8 June 2025

Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Research Institute for European and American Studies

With the growing alliance between Pakistan and Turkey, I believe the time has come for India and Greece to join hands and act as a defensive wall against these two countries. I, along with several journalist friends from both India and Greece, have been working on this idea for quite some time to strengthen the defense cooperation between the two nations. A similar suggestion was also made by senior Greek diplomat Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos during a recent discussion.... Read more

Prof. Dr. Ilias Iliopoulos
(He has been a Professor of the Hellenic Naval War College and of the American College of Greece – Deree. He is currently teaching at the Department of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies of the University of Athens)

Copyright: @ 2025 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 27 September 2025

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Warships and warplanes of the so called People’s Liberation Army (i.e., the Armed Forces of the People’s Republic of China), have been conducting military activities, in large numbers, around Taiwan as part of a long-running intimidation tactic applied by Beijing against the island republic. ... Read more

Vladislav Belov
(Candidate of Science (Economics), Leading Researcher, Head of the Department of Country Studies and Center for German Studies, Institute of Europe (Russian Academy of Sciences)

Copyright @ 2025 Institute of European Russian Academy of Sciences (www.instituteofeurope.ru) – Article in the Journal “Analytical papers of the Institute of Europe RAS – Vol IV, No 41, 2025 (No 409)

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The paper examines current state and evolution of German–Russian relations under the coalition government of Friedrich Merz. The author argues that in 2025 the relations have entered a phase of structural confrontation shaped by deliberate political re-definition of Russia’s place in German foreign and security policy. Anchored in the post-Zeitenwende logic, Germany increasingly promotes military deterrence, expansion of military-industrial capacities, support for Kyiv regime and militarization of the Baltic–Scandinavian microregion. Read more

Turkey, Iran, and the Balancing of Threats in the Era of Realist Constructivism

By Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Ivanov
(University of St Kliment Ohridski Bitola, Faculty of Security, Skopje, North Macedonia)

Copyright: @ 2026 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 24 May 2026

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To understand the architecture of the emerging global order, one must first look at the map of world wealth — and then at the map of the world’s seas. 
After more than a century in which the geographic center of global gross domestic product was firmly anchored somewhere between Europe and North America, the economic center of gravity is shifting inexorably back toward Asia. This eastward movement is not a historical accident. It is, rather, a return to a historical norm in which China, for centuries, accounted for roughly 20 to 25 percent of global wealth creation. ... Read more

Nico Prucha
(Affiliated Researcher at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs (OIIP), Ph.D. Candidate, University of Vienna).

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Published in form of a video and a transcript by the “nukhbat al-i’lam al-jihadi” media group on the mainstream jihad forums in September 2008. Read more

Mr. Salman Taseer, governor of Pakistan's Punjab province and a senior politician of Pakistan People's Party, was assassinated by a guard of the elite Punjab Police Unit responsible for his protection. It is most unfortunate and sad that Taseer had to pay the ultimate price for announcing that he was going to request the President of Pakistan to use his prerogative and save Asia Bibi, an impoverished Christian woman, sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy against the Prophet of Islam. After having sieved Taseer with 26 bullets, the cold-blooded killer Malik Mumtaz Husain Qadri said that he has killed Taseer because the latter wanted to bring about reformation in the Blasphemy Law, which he deemed a dark law.