EDITORIAL

Dr. Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 9 July 2020

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

 History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
Kurt Vonnegut

Turkey’s history of bullying and militaristic threats towards her neighbors (and particularly Greece) can fill a multi-volume series of collected news stories and analyses. The man feeding this bubbling volcano of belligerence, Islamic killer fanaticism, and aggression is no other than sultan-for-life Erdogan, the neo-Ottoman president of Turkey, and his mentally unstable illusions of turning a country of over 84 million (and growing rapidly) into the fundamentalist Islamic center of the world...Read more

Saron Messembe Obia

(Master of Science in Security Studies and Post Graduate Diploma in Criminology and Security management from the Pan African Institute for Development West Africa (PAID- WA)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 5 July 2020

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

Introduction

Ideology arose in a revolutionary era from politics and the study of politics (Pamela E. Oliver & Hank Johnston, 2000). Inspired by John Locke in 1796, French writer A. L. C. Destutt de Tracy in his "science of ideas", articulated that ideology is verification of knowledge for democratic, rational, and scientific society (Cranston 1994, Rude 1980). Napoleon Bonaparte’s reign in 1803 marked with suppression, as ideologues like Marx and Engels, consider the pejorative meaning of ideology for class-motivated deceptions of the bourgeoisie, which they contrasted with the scientific understandings of a class-conscious proletariat. ..Read more

Shaul Shay
(Senior research fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and former deputy head of Israel’s National Security Council)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 27 June 2020

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As violence escalates in Yemen between the Iran-aligned Houthi movement and the Saudi led coalition in the north of the country and the corona virus pandemic, Saudi Arabia has proposed a framework to end the latest standoff in southern Yemen between Southern Transitional Council (STC) and President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Read more

Earnest Talk vs “Earnest” Failure

Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 16 June 2020

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Ever since the end of WWII, the idea of international communication and cooperation through “multilateralism” dominated the efforts of leaders, philosophers, academics, and commentators throughout the Western world. Alliances, like NATO, appeared the full-proof instruments of “stability.” The United Nations, the intellectual child of the post-WWII urge to formalize permanent “peace for all,” grew by leaps and bounds. ..Read more

Musa Khan Jalalzai

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 8 June 2020

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The Greece represents a unique case of engagement with NATO, EU, EMU and Western Defensive and political contraption, but notwithstanding this engagement, the present Government is facing plenty of challenges, including foreign terrorist and espionage networks...  Read more

The United States violence conundrum

Tassos Symeonides
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 1 June 2020

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

Ever since 1972, when I first set foot on American soil, I’ve been watching, in unbroken admiration, a country full of unique vitality, economic prowess, admirable personal freedoms, and the gifts of a true “land of opportunity” in which anyone with fresh innovative ideas, and the persistence to pursue them, can prosper, often in unprecedented ways...Read more