The Snowball Effect: Europe’s Natural Gas Shortage
Europe is hit by a dire crisis in energy supplies that is likely to get worse as winter looms. Gas…
Strategic studies
The Sino-Australian Rising Rivalry in the Indo-Pacific
The announcement of the AUKUS agreement signed between the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia gave rise to mounting tensions…
Nord Stream 2: A pipeline under Scepticism
At the beginning of September 2021, the last pipes of Nord Stream 2 were welded into the pipeline string and…
Betting on democracy: Biden’s big idea for US foreign policy
If you could boil down Joe Biden’s foreign policy to its essentials, two things would stand out: competition with China,…
Modi’s Delicate Balancing Act
As dusk fell on Monday in a chilly New Delhi, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin…
The Prospects of the US Deal of the Century
It seems that during 2019 the US will be inching closer towards the official reveal of the articles of the…
Will China Reconsider its “Peaceful Rise” Theory?
It seems that there are opportunities for China to reconsider its theory of peaceful rise on which its international foreign…
What Makes Autocracies’ Soft Power Strategies Special?
By Artem Patalakh – The Korean Journal of International Studies 15-1 (April 2017), 41-69. Abstract The paper problematizes the national…
Rising China and the Evolution of China-North Korea Relations
Abstract China’s foreign policies and behaviors with respect to the North Korean nuclear crises are conflicting or inconsistent, and therefore…
