Tag: Sanctions

Serbia-parliamentary-e;ections

Serbia: The Point Of Greater Uncertainty

Serbia has reached a point where the familiar order is no longer working. More than twelve years of dominance by the Serbian Progressive Party and Aleksandar Vučić ended with his own acknowledgment of defeat. According to the preliminary count, the “Student List” has secured an absolute majority in parliament with […]

Turkey-Iran-Israel-Middle-East

Between Ankara And Tel-Aviv: Iran’s Calculated Game In The New Middle East

The Middle East’s strategic landscape is fracturing. As the US-led security architecture erodes, a volatile triangle emerges, defined by rivalry and exploitation. At its heart lies the turbulent Turkey-Israel relationship. For decades, it oscillated between cooperation and crisis. Today, it enters a more dangerous phase, and no actor benefits from […]

Slovakia-Fico-foreign-policy-EU-Russia

Slovakia’s Glitch Diplomacy: Balancing Between Brussels And Moscow (II)

Part I Slovakia’s increasingly unconventional foreign policy has attracted disproportionate attention within Europe. Prime Minister Robert Fico’s willingness to maintain dialogue with Moscow while remaining inside both the European Union and NATO has often been interpreted as evidence of ideological divergence from Brussels. Such explanations, however, overlook a more fundamental […]

Serbia-EU-Russia-balancing

Serbia’s Balancing Game: Between Moscow And Brussels

The European Commission for the sixth time since December 2021 issued a recommendation to open negotiating Cluster 3 for Serbia, covering competitiveness, inclusive growth, and access to the EU single market. In its information note of July 3, the Commission stated that Serbia had met key requirements: it repealed controversial […]

Belarus-Lukashenko-Fertilizer-Plant-Proposal

Lukashenko’s Trilateral Belarusian-Russian-US Fertilizer Plant Proposal Is A Genius Move

It could set into motion a fast-moving sequence of events that meaningfully de-escalates New Cold War tensions provided that Trump agrees to participate in this project as expected. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko just announced that “Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin] and I agreed that Gazprom will join us in implementing the project […]

Russia-four-new-regions

The Military-Political Confrontation Between The West And Russia Could Cause A State Of ‘Cold Peace’ On The European Continent

The collapse in 1991 of such a powerful nuclear superpower as the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century, which destroyed the post-World War II balance of power in the world and untied the hands of the West for unpunished actions in various regions of the […]