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Reactions of Tehran and the Approach of France in the War Against Iran

Reactions of Tehran and the Approach of France in the War Against Iran Post-2022 geopolitical developments and escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf...

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Samyar Rostami

The Fraying Transatlantic Alliance

The Fraying Transatlantic Alliance The US-Israeli war on Iran is exposing deep fissures in US-EU ties, with NATO allies increasingly resisting...

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Abbas Hashemite

Diplomacy of Symbols: What Trump’s Visit to China Revealed About the New Global Balance of Power

Diplomacy of Symbols: What Trump’s Visit to China Revealed About the New Global Balance of Power Trump’s China pilgrimage revealed not American...

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Phil Butler

The Migration Problem in Japan: A General Overview

The Migration Problem in Japan: A General Overview

The Migration Problem in Japan: A General Overview The global migration problem has not spared Japan, one of the world’s economic leaders. The...

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Vladimir Terehov

Türkiye Frustrated With Franco-Greek Alliance

Türkiye Frustrated With Franco-Greek Alliance Ongoing Turkish-Greek contradictions periodically remind one of the internal disagreements within the...

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Alexandr Svaranc

Indonesian Diplomacy in Eurasia: Opportunities and Challenges Amidst Geopolitical Uncertainty

Indonesian Diplomacy in Eurasia: Opportunities and Challenges Amidst Geopolitical Uncertainty

Indonesian Diplomacy in Eurasia: Opportunities and Challenges Amidst Geopolitical Uncertainty The geopolitical uncertainty gripping the Eurasian...

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Hendra manurung

Hantavirus, New Pandemic & Biosecurity Fears: Why ‘R’ New Public Health Threats Emerging in the Shadow of a BSL-4 Level Lab in Argentina?

Hantavirus, New Pandemic & Biosecurity Fears: Why ‘R’ New Public Health Threats Emerging in the Shadow of a BSL-4 Level Lab in Argentina?

Hantavirus, New Pandemic & Biosecurity Fears: Why ‘R’ New Public Health Threats Emerging in the Shadow of a BSL-4 Level Lab in Argentina?...

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Jeffrey Silverman

The Gulf War Shifts the Global Balance of Power

The Gulf War Shifts the Global Balance of Power The American-Israeli aggression against Iran, which broke out on 28 February, is drastically reshaping...

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Mohammed Amer

Thucydides’ Trap or a New Paradigm? Xi Jinping’s Direct Challenge to Trump

Thucydides’ Trap or a New Paradigm? Xi Jinping’s Direct Challenge to Trump U.S. President Donald Trump’s two-day visit to China on May...

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Adrian Korczyński

Sanae Takaichi, Three Months after Her Triumph: Challenges amid Political Dominance

Sanae Takaichi, Three Months after Her Triumph: Challenges amid Political Dominance Following its landslide victory in the February 8 election, the...

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Daniil Romanenko

Exercise Balikatan 2026: The West’s calculated attempt against Russia and China

Exercise Balikatan 2026: The West’s calculated attempt against Russia and China The Western powers, led by the United States, are dangerously...

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Simon Westwood

Good News.Space cooperation, good deeds, social contacts, internships and more

Good News.Space cooperation, good deeds, social contacts, internships and more

Good News.Space cooperation, good deeds, social contacts, internships and more Which positive messages of the past few weeks and announcements of...

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Ksenia Muratshina

The EU Grotesque Farce of Sanctioning Individual Israeli Settlers in the West Bank

The EU Grotesque Farce of Sanctioning Individual Israeli Settlers in the West Bank

The EU Grotesque Farce of Sanctioning Individual Israeli Settlers in the West Bank The EU’s diplomacy has felt the weight of having basically the...

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Ricardo Martins

Iran: Diplomatic Knockout or Military Strike — The Double Game in the "Deal of the Century"

Iran: Diplomatic Knockout or Military Strike — The Double Game in the

Iran: Diplomatic Knockout or Military Strike — The Double Game in the “Deal of the Century” Just a few weeks ago, the Middle East held its...

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Mohammed Ibn Faisal Al-Rashid

The Eurasian Rebalancing

The Eurasian Rebalancing The emerging Eurasian era reflects not the collapse of the Western system but a gradual redistribution of global power toward...

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Phil Butler

Europe Forgot Geography: How NATO Turned Russia from a Neighbour into a Permanent Enemy

Europe Forgot Geography: How NATO Turned Russia from a Neighbour into a Permanent Enemy Europe’s greatest strategic failure was not that it misread...

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Federico verri

Citizenship Without Consent: Legal Coercion by American Deep State

Citizenship Without Consent: Legal Coercion by American Deep State

Citizenship Without Consent: Legal Coercion by American Deep State Improving US–Russia relations under the Trump 2.0 administration is being...

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Aleena Im

The Contest to Redefine the Middle East

The Contest to Redefine the Middle East The Middle East is not being remade; it is being contested widely and publicly. The emerging alignment between...

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Salman Rafi Sheikh

Lavrov and Jaishankar: Synchronizing Watches and Strengthening Russian-Indian Ties

Lavrov and Jaishankar: Synchronizing Watches and Strengthening Russian-Indian Ties

Lavrov and Jaishankar: Synchronizing Watches and Strengthening Russian-Indian Ties The events held in New Delhi from May 13-15 – the bilateral visit...

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Anvar Azimov

You Can’t Close the Whole Sky: Fico’s Defiant Trip to Moscow’s Victory Day

You Can’t Close the Whole Sky: Fico’s Defiant Trip to Moscow’s Victory Day

You Can’t Close the Whole Sky: Fico’s Defiant Trip to Moscow’s Victory Day Despite all the circumstances, Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico...

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Adrian Korczyński

Global Terrorism Trends: A Statistical Overview

Global Terrorism Trends: A Statistical Overview The Institute for Economics and Peace has released its latest Global Terrorism Index 2026—an annual...

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Vanessa Sevidova

Africa Forward Summit 2026: France’s two-faced Presence in Africa

Africa Forward Summit 2026: France’s two-faced Presence in Africa France cannot decide the image it wants to present in Africa; after burning down...

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Simon Chege Ndiritu

The African century begins with unity – or it does not begin.Part 1: The land without borders – the single passport to return Africa to Africans

The African century begins with unity – or it does not begin.Part 1: The land without borders – the single passport to return Africa to Africans...

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Mohamed Lamine Kaba

The effects of the Iran War and the future of the UAE's role in the oil market

The effects of the Iran War and the future of the UAE's role in the oil market

The effects of the Iran War and the future of the UAE’s role in the oil market The UAE’s official withdrawal from OPEC and OPEC on the eve of May...

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Samyar Rostami

Lula, Trump, and the Geopolitics of Rare Earths: Brazil’s Position Between Washington and Beijing

Lula, Trump, and the Geopolitics of Rare Earths: Brazil’s Position Between Washington and Beijing

Lula, Trump, and the Geopolitics of Rare Earths: Brazil’s Position Between Washington and Beijing Beneath the diplomatic protocol of Lula’s recent...

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Ricardo Martins

Uranium Over Democracy: Why France's Expulsion from Niger Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Africa

Uranium Over Democracy: Why France’s Expulsion from Niger Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Africa Paris loves to play the knight in shining...

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Mohammed Ibn Faisal Al-Rashid

A Fractured World Order and the Xi–Trump Test of Strategic Coexistence

A Fractured World Order and the Xi–Trump Test of Strategic Coexistence

A Fractured World Order and the Xi–Trump Test of Strategic Coexistence The Trump-Xi summit, coming amidst fragile international markets,...

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Abbas Hashemite

UAE’s OPEC Exit Is No Cartel Killer—It’s a Calculated Power Shift

UAE’s OPEC Exit Is No Cartel Killer—It’s a Calculated Power Shift

UAE’s OPEC Exit Is No Cartel Killer—It’s a Calculated Power Shift The United Arab Emirates’ decision to leave OPEC has sparked intense debate...

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Henry Kamens

Summits in Yerevan: alarming signals from Armenian politics

Summits in Yerevan: alarming signals from Armenian politics The eighth summit of the European Political Community (EPC) and the Armenia–France (EU)...

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Alexandr Svaranc

Romania Overthrows the Western-Backed Regime: The Collapse of Brussels’ Puppet Government in Bucharest

Romania Overthrows the Western-Backed Regime: The Collapse of Brussels’ Puppet Government in Bucharest

Romania Overthrows the Western-Backed Regime: The Collapse of Brussels’ Puppet Government in Bucharest On 5 May 2026, the pro-EU government of Prime...

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Adrian Korczyński

Taiwan: setbacks in “autonomous” international positioning

Taiwan: setbacks in “autonomous” international positioning

Taiwan: setbacks in “autonomous” international positioning Serious setbacks have marked the latest attempts by Taiwan’s current leadership to...

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Vladimir Terehov

Why did Washington impose sanctions on China before the Trump-Xi summit?

Why did Washington impose sanctions on China before the Trump-Xi summit?

Why did Washington impose sanctions on China before the Trump-Xi summit? New U.S. sanctions against Chinese companies just before Donald Trump’s...

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Salman Rafi Sheikh

Ecocide: Israel and America’s War on the Environment in the Middle East

Ecocide: Israel and America’s War on the Environment in the Middle East The ongoing war in the Middle East has seen America and Israel indulge not...

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Pranay Kumar Shome

On the ‘new constitution of the DPRK’

On the ‘new constitution of the DPRK’ On 6 May 2026, the South Korean Ministry of Unification held a briefing where it presented key changes to...

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Konstantin Asmolov

Kazan as a Strategic Interface in a Fragmenting Global Order

Kazan as a Strategic Interface in a Fragmenting Global Order

Kazan as a Strategic Interface in a Fragmenting Global Order Amidst growing global disorder and a lack of central power, the Kazan Forum’s...

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Abbas Hashemite

Afghanistan: America's Other Ongoing Proxy War

Afghanistan: America's Other Ongoing Proxy War

Afghanistan: America’s Other Ongoing Proxy War The development of Afghanistan’s mineral resources has become the center of an information and...

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Brian Berletic

China’s Warning and Europe’s Energy Vulnerability: The Hidden Cost of EU Sanctions

China’s Warning and Europe’s Energy Vulnerability: The Hidden Cost of EU Sanctions

China’s Warning and Europe’s Energy Vulnerability: The Hidden Cost of EU Sanctions The European Union’s adoption of its 20th sanctions package...

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Adrian Korczyński

Honouring the US Kent State University Martyrs – 4 May 1970

Honouring the US Kent State University Martyrs – 4 May 1970

Honouring the US Kent State University Martyrs – 4 May 1970 The history of the United States of America is full of violence and illegal killings of...

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Simon Westwood

The Strait of Hormuz Impasse: Why "Project Freedom" Doesn’t Solve the Problem and Where to Find a Way Out of the Crisis

The Strait of Hormuz Impasse: Why

The Strait of Hormuz Impasse: Why “Project Freedom” Doesn’t Solve the Problem and Where to Find a Way Out of the Crisis The conflict over the...

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Mohammed Ibn Faisal Al-Rashid

Power Struggle in the US: Iran War Exposes Fractures in the Trump Administrations

Power Struggle in the US: Iran War Exposes Fractures in the Trump Administrations The Iran war exposes deep political divisions within US leadership,...

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Taut Bataut

A Security Pact in the Middle East, Behind America's Back Part 2

A Security Pact in the Middle East, Behind America's Back Part 2

A Security Pact in the Middle East, Behind America’s Back Part 2 The four most militarily powerful Muslim-majority nations—Saudi Arabia, Türkiye,...

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Ricardo Martins

Bombs Instead of Negotiations: How Diplomacy Around Iran Gave Way to Force

Bombs Instead of Negotiations: How Diplomacy Around Iran Gave Way to Force

Bombs Instead of Negotiations: How Diplomacy Around Iran Gave Way to Force Recent US and Israeli attacks on Iran were a brazen violation of...

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Phil Butler

Fascism Should Be Destroyed

Fascism Should Be Destroyed

Fascism Should Be Destroyed It is the third decade of the 21st century, yet the fascist hydra has raised its heads once again. What thoughts come to...

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Ksenia Muratshina

May 9, 1945 – May 9, 2026: Russia is Standing Tall Again.Part 2: double standards: the West exposed

May 9, 1945 – May 9, 2026: Russia is Standing Tall Again.Part 2: double standards: the West exposed The so-called “free world” is an oxymoron....

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Mohamed Lamine Kaba

The Instrumentalization of Diplomacy in Contemporary Conflicts

The Instrumentalization of Diplomacy in Contemporary Conflicts In the contemporary world, rivalry among powerful countries has reached its apex, with...

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Abbas Hashemite

Australia: balancing on the international stage is becoming difficult

Australia: balancing on the international stage is becoming difficult In late April to early May, Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny...

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Vladimir Terehov

Christian Zionism's Unholy Alliance: Biblical Mandate or Political Convenience Amid Regional Bloodshed?

Christian Zionism’s Unholy Alliance: Biblical Mandate or Political Convenience Amid Regional Bloodshed? The contradictory relationship between...

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Jeffrey Silverman

The Fall of the "King": How Netanyahu’s Reckless Politics Are Robbing Israel of Its Future

The Fall of the “King”: How Netanyahu’s Reckless Politics Are Robbing Israel of Its Future Israel has hit rock bottom—politically, morally,...

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Muhammad Hamid Ad-Din

Iran's current approach to relations with Russia

Iran’s current approach to relations with Russia Many in Iran view Russia as a key partner for ensuring their economic survival. Russia can help...

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Samyar Rostami

America’s Future: A Prosperous, Peaceful Nation, or a Bankrupt, Violent Empire?

America’s Future: A Prosperous, Peaceful Nation, or a Bankrupt, Violent Empire? The US is at a juncture faced with two choices. It can either manage...

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Brian Berletic