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February 2025 In recent years, Turkey has succeeded in reshaping its relations towards the Balkans, shifting from establishing a symbolic presence to defining a consistent strategy of economic, cultural, and political influence. Namely, while the European Union is battling its internal political challenges and external threats, and the interest of the United States is stagnating, […]

February 2025 The winter months of 2025 are bringing along a series of upsetting phenomena in European societies. From Berlin to Copenhagen, to Paris, a wave of protests and violent incidents is capturing states which, until recently, were deemed as symbols of institutional stability and democratic maturity. The attacks on political representatives, the upsurge of

February 2025 The European analytical circles have long been seeing the Iran-Israel conflict as a constant source of instability, which, from time to time, changes its form and intensity. However, in the beginning of 2025, it is growing into something much wider – into a systemic problem of the global security architecture. Regarding this, the

January 2025 Since October 2024, we have been identifying a trend depicted in the use of artillery – ballistic cruise missiles and UAVs, paired with cyber operations – as a means of a sort of political and military warning, in which the Islamic Republic of Iran has been especially coming to the fore in the

January 2025 The war in Gaza, which last winter was categorized as one of the longest phases of open armed conflict between Israel and Hamas, has turned into a regional crisis, which far exceeds the borders of the Palestinian enclave, threatening to completely change the balance of power in the Middle East. Instead of an

January 2025 The return of Donald Trump to the White House in January 2025 marks the beginning of a new political cycle, which poses a serious dilemma for the international system. The American public is expressing deep polarization between expectations of economic recovery and the fear of institutional erosion. At the same time, the global

January 2025 Since 2022, when coordinated campaigns with artificially generated content were registered during the war in Ukraine, the use of artificial intelligence in information wars has stopped being an experiment. It has become an instrument of power. By 2025, AI has become an integral part of conflicts in the Middle East, Caucasus, and the

January 2025 Europe is once again entering another winter, and regarding this, the energy image of Southeastern Europe is increasingly resembling a complex mosaic, in which realism and rhetoric constantly conflict. The Balkans, as always, is at the crossroads – between Russian gas, American LNG, Turkish streams, and European funds. And while Brussels is insisting

January 2025 Europe entered into another winter, and to state it clearly, migrations are once again popping out as the number one topic, even though we all believed that the flow had simmered down. Regarding this, the Balkans are once again under the reflectors, because Frontex is already registering an increase of about thirty-something percent

January 2025 In the first half of the 2020s, Africa has become a new center of geoeconomic attention, not because of its traditional ore and energy base, but for its position in the global critical minerals supply chain – cobalt, lithium, copper, and rare minerals, which have become indispensable in the production of batteries, renewable