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December 2025 Since the beginning of 2024, Albania has been in a state of enhanced political tension, clearly manifested through waves of protests in Tirana and other cities. The first big protests erupted on February 20, 2024, after the allegations against Edi Rama for corruption and statements of political instrumentalization of the judiciary, when the […]

December 2025 The digital front is no longer a metaphor of the future. It is an operational reality of contemporary times. States, corporations, and network actors are waging wars not measured in territories, but in bandwidth. They are not conquering cities, but data flow. They are not destroying bridges, but systems of trust. In this

December 2025 A Russian cargo ship silently sailing along a river is not transporting only oil, lumber, or metal. It is transporting something much more important – a strategy. Under the pressure of Western sanctions and cut off from traditional European markets, Russia is forced to examine its own geography once again. In this process,

December 2025 Global economic changes often lead to migrations. Countries that face economic decline and the loss of workplaces can be faced with mass exodus, while on the other side, the countries with a wider scope of employment possibilities, in which investments come and have higher chances for prosperity, are usually targeted by migrants and

November 2025 Hamas and Hezbollah represent two influential organizations that have for decades shaped the political, military, and social dynamics of the Middle East. Their rise reflects specific historical and geopolitical circumstances, and their methods and goals have evolved in parallel with the waves of regional crises and changes in global power shifts. Often perceived

November 2025 Terrorism has myriad definitions, but not a single one on which all countries would agree. In the contemporary world, terrorism has surpassed its previous forms and manifestations, adopting the character of a global threat that encompasses the entire world. Globalization, new technologies, and their growth have become a dangerous weapon of terrorist organizations

November 2025 The set dilemma refers to the grouping of countries in a form of joint action which, after seven centuries of a Eurocentric world defined by imperialism and colonialism, for now, does not include Europe, the up to recently global hegemon, the US. In this context, it imposes the need to understand the position

November 2025 In the last decade, the Balkans became a strategic stage of competition of big powers again, but in a completely different geopolitical format in comparison to the period of the Cold War. While the European Union battles its institutional fatigue, slow expansion and internal divisions, and the United States is shifting the focus

November 2025 The European Union (EU), as a complex supranational entity, represents a unique political and institutional construct in the contemporary world. Even though it formally promotes the foundational values of democracy, rule of law, freedom, and equality, its functioning reveals a series of inconsistencies that question the real democracy in practice. This analysis starts

November 2025 The digital empires grow more quietly than others, but their impact is stronger. They do not conquer territories, but the information flow. They do not use tanks, but models that detect patterns. In these patterns, they seek for weak spots of society. And they find them with accuracy that resembles the process of