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Artemis II: the return to the Moon and the new era of space explorations

September 2025 Five decades after the last human footstep on the Moon, the Artemis II mission is entering the focus as a technological result, but also as a signal of the new global dynamics. The return of the crew into the Moon’s orbit seems as a test of operational stability of SLS and Orion systems. […]

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Russia and North Korea: New partnership in the post-Soviet space

September 2025 At the beginning of 2025, the international system witnessed the strengthening of political and strategic cooperation between Russia and North Korea – two actors that, despite long isolations and external pressures, have succeeded in preserving autonomy in decision-making. Their rapprochement no longer represents tactical improvisation, which emerged under the burden of sanctions, but

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Disinformation and digital narratives in the region

September 2025 For years now, the region has been entering into a growing, deep phase of digital competition, but now, this process is gaining a new structure. Generative technologies are changing the nature of information dynamics, and the entire field is passing from classical media conflict into a complex system of digital monitoring and manipulation.

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The United States of America in the fight against the cartels: the new front in the war against drugs

September 2025 More than five decades after Richard Nixon declared the “war against drugs”, the United States of America enter a new phase of this long cycle, and in this phase, I recognize the shape of a complex transformation in which the crisis, instead of decreasing, is indeed spreading outside the framework of classical crime

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The black gold in crisis: The geopolitics of oil in 2025

September 2025 The oil market in 2025 is in a paradoxical situation: even though the global demand remains relatively high, the political and technological changes are fundamentally changing the architecture of energy security. The geopolitics of oil is no longer the issue of quantity and price, but an instrument of global positioning, a means of

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Gaza burning: Israel and Hamas on the brink of a new war

August 2025 In the summer of 2025, the Gaza Strip is once again entering into the phase of intense destabilization, which resembles, by its characteristics the spread of the virus of instability in a fragile regional organism, whereas the security image is changing day by day, thus demanding for an analytical approach that would clearly

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The Moldovan elections: Democratic processes and foreign influences in the context of Eurasian tensions

August 2025 The upcoming parliamentary elections in Moldavia, scheduled for September 28, 2025, are entering the political orb as an event that shapes the regional momentum, because they symbolically represent a test of democratic resilience in a space in which European aspirations, post-Soviet identity layers, and interest spheres of great powers collide. In this complex

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Palestine and the US: Strategic perspectives of recognition

August 2025 After more than seven decades since the foundation of State of Israel and more than three decades since the Oslo Accords, the American foreign policy regarding Palestine is not entering the phase of recognition of the Palestinian state but, to the contrary, it is confirming the old line – the US Administration does

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Between verdicts and referendums: Dodik at the crossroads of power

August 2025 Electoral, political, and institutional processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina are entering a new phase in which Milorad Dodik takes up the central position, not only because of the verdicts that follow his work, but also due to the political mechanisms he announced through potential referendums. Such a situation asks for an analytical understanding

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Western Balkans and organized crime: Cross-border challenges and European cooperation

August 2025 Organized crime in the Western Balkans is entering a new phase of expansion, which demands more serious international efforts and significantly deeper European cooperation, because the actors who are present in the region are linking the local networks with transnational flows, thus constructing structures that function as a parallel security architecture, whose influence

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