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November 2025 The Balkan Peninsula, a space where historical borders become the contemporary corridors of influence, and the old alliances gain new shapes, represents one of the most complex geopolitical spaces, and as such, it reflex the central point of the historical competition of great powers, where the interests of the East and the West, […]

November 2025 The polarization in the US is not a sudden phenomenon, but a process that has been shaped gradually for decades. It is rooted in cultural and racial cleavages originating from the period of the Civil War, but the modern form of polarization becomes visible only at the end of the twentieth century, when

October 2025 The political life in Mali has once again entered a zone of deep instability, with no indication of stabilization of the situation in the near future. Namely, the protests that are continually being taking place during 2024 and 2025 in the capital Bamako, even though not as mass as the ones recorded in

October 2025 Local elections in Georgia at the beginning of October 2025 represent the key moment in the political DNA of the country and open up a series of questions about the future of democracy. Even though, formally speaking, mayors and members of local assemblies were electors, their significance surpasses the local level, given the

October 2025 The coup conducted on September 25, 2025, in Madagascar, in which the President Andry Rajoelina was overthrown, represents another hit to the fragile democratic transition of this island state. After a few months of growing tensions within the armed forces, the crises in supply with water and electricity, as well as the dissatisfaction

October 2025 Bulgaria is entering the second half of 2025 in a phase in which energy stops being a technical issue and grows into a wider political story, and thus, we all understand that this country is attempting to rearrange its own security architecture through an energy transition that breaks up between its historical habits

October 2025 The diplomacy that circles and intends to circle, and finally, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is entering the most complex phase in the last twenty years. After the 2023 escalation and the wave of violence that caught up in Gaza, the West Bank, and the Northern part of Israel, the year 2025 brought along an

October 2025 Europe enters in 2025 into a new security paradigm. The sky above the continent has become a space for hybrid competition. The use of drones from Ukraine to the Middle East has changed the architecture of military power. It now resembles a system in which the classical supremacy is replaced by the techniques

October 2025 The last decade brought along the accelerated entrance of China into the Balkans, with a pattern that resembles a carefully programmed operation. This region, traditionally linked to the influences of EU, Russia, and Turkey, has become a testing environment for the Chinese “encryption of power” – a mixture of capital, infrastructure, and political

October 2025 Haiti, the first black republic in the world and the historical symbol of anti-colonial fight, nowadays represents the harshest example of collapsed statehood in the modern international order. Formally a sovereign state, but essentially tied by the cycles of political violence, institutional weakness, and chronic humanitarian dependence, Haiti entered the second decade of