Asfandiyar Qamar
(Security Analyst)
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Since the revolution in 2011, Yemen’s new government under interim President Abd Mansour Al-Hadhi, has been attempting to undo the damage done to the country’s economy, system of governance, its natural resources, and its security situation, by years of political and economic mismanagement under former President, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
George N. Tzogopoulos
(Political and Media Analyst, Author of the Books: US Foreign Policy in the European Media: Framing the Rise and Fall of Neoconservatism (I.B.TAURIS, 2012) and The Greek Crisis in the Media (Ashgate, 2013).
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An agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme had seemed like an almost romantic hope before Sunday 24 November 2013. The intransigence of Tehran to co-operate with international standards and the isolation policy applied by Washington was leading negotiations to an impasse for many years. The election of President Hassan Rouhani in June 2013 was certainly a significant development contributing to a better understanding. But it was rather the success of foreign ministers and diplomats from six different countries which finally paved the way for the breakthrough. In particular, the United States, China, Russia, France, Germany and the United Kingdom agreed with Iran after a marathon of talks to impose limits and rollbacks on its nuclear programme in exchange for a modest easing of sanctions.
Stathis Katopodis
(Analyst, RIEAS Research Associate)
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Introduction
For more than twenty years, the world experiences constant changes in the political/diplomatic, social and economic domains. With the fall of communism in the early 1990s and the expansion of the U.S. driven capitalism, the western transatlantic world created a ground for peace and prosperity to flourish. However, with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, KGB stopped being the sole player in intelligence gathering and a know-how provider for its member states. At the dawn of 1990s, it became imperative for the newly independent states to establish new intelligence agencies and to comply with international standards of intelligence gathering and analysis. However, there were still lessons to be learned... Read more
James W. Warhola
(PhD is Professor and Chairman, Department of Political Science, The University of Maine, USA)
Egemen B. Bezci
(MA is a research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, Sakarya University, Turkey)
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The Arab Spring, or “Arab Awakening,” that began in Tunisia in early 2011 has spawned numerous developments across the region, some of them surprising in nature and perhaps in scale. One such development has been a major re-alignment of regional power relations, resulting both in new patterns of relations among countries and in complications of longstanding disputes…. Read more
Ia Pozovi
(RIEAS Senior Analyst)
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Introduction
Georgian Intelligence Community in the form it exists nowadays is quite young institutional body. During years it faced lots of reforms and changes. As accepted by many scholars historical legacies are often reflected in the institutional mentalities and daily operations of the services. This should also be taken into consideration when talking about Georgian Intelligence Community.... Read more
Prof. Anis H. Bajrektarevic
(Chairman of the Intl. Law & Global Pol. Studies and the author of the forthcoming book ‘Is there life after Facebook’, Addleton Academic Publishers, NY & RIEAS Member of International Advisory Board)
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How to draw the line between the recent and still unsettled EU/EURO crisis and Asia’s success story? Well, it might be easier than it seems: Neither Europe nor Asia has any alternative. The difference is that Europe well knows there is no alternative – and therefore is multilateral. Asia thinks it has an alternative – and therefore is strikingly bilateral, while stubbornly residing enveloped in economic egoisms. No wonder that Europe is/will be able to manage its decline, while Asia is (still) unable to capitalise its successes….. Read more