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The US strategic challenges in the Indo-Pacific: Balancing towards China after the Taiwan elections

August 2025 The United States of America is entering a period of enhanced strategic challenges in the Indo-Pacific after the Taiwan elections, because the new political configuration in Taipei is changing the dynamics of relations with Beijing and calls for a more precise adaptation of the American regional engagement. The result of the elections came […]

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Iran and the regional balance: the Tehran policies after the strike against Israel

August 2025 After entering into confrontation with Israel during June 2025, which remains marked in the public media sources as the “12-days war”, Iran entered into a new phase of foreign policy that combines explicit military message with targeted diplomacy and strategic rationalization of risk tolerance, whereas Tehran is clearly striving towards affirming the deterrence

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The Balkans and European security: Between EU enlargement and the unsolved national issues

August 2025 The Balkans entered in 2025 into a new phase of political and security uncertainty, because the region is at the same time following the signals from Brussels and its own politics of unsolved national issues that still determine the rhythm of stability. The European Union enlargement process remains the most significant strategic framework

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2025 Elections in Venezuela: The End of the Era of Maduro or the New Configuration of Authoritarianism?

August 2025 The 2025 election year in Venezuela opens up a wide space for a combination of political, security, economic, and sociocultural factors, because elections are not functioning as a simple democratic ritual but as a multi-layered event that shapes the lives of millions of people, influences regional flows, and produces new configurations of power.

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Yemen after the peace negotiations: The possibilities and limitations of permanent stabilization

August 2025 Two years after the intensification of peace negotiations between the internationally-recognized Government of Yemen, the Houthis, and regional actors, led by Saudi Arabia, Yemen remains a space in which the political fluidity is intertwined with a deeply rooted security challenges, complex social fragmentation, and competition of foreign policy interests. Namely, the period after

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Niger between the East and the West: A retrospective of two years after the coup

August 2025 Two years after the coup d’état that changed the government in Niger, the country finds itself examining its own foreign-policy orientations and internal weaknesses, whereas the breakup with conventional partnerships and the rise of new alliances have formed the political and security reality of the country. The dissolution of the institutional continuity has

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India-China rivalry in Asia: Borders, economy, and new alliances

July 2025 I present the rivalry between India and China in 2025 as a complex and multilayered phenomenon which is continuously defining the political, economic and security dynamics of Asia, and therefore, I stress that it is no longer exhausted solely in the borderline tensions in Ladakh and Sikim, but it encompases a wide specter

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The US after the elections: Internal polarization and foreign policy priorities

July 2025 The elections in the United States of America in 2024 have produced a high level of political polarization, which is directly affecting the formulation of foreign policy. The period after the elections shows that the internal cleavages no longer represent only the result of party competition, but are becoming a structural factor that

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Humanitarian policies in the 21st-century wars: Lessons from Gaza, Yemen, and southern Syria

July 2025 The humanitarian challenges of the 21st century have become inseparably bound to the dynamics of contemporary conflicts, in which the civilian casualties, collapsed infrastructure, and the weakness of state institutions are producing a multi-layered crisis. The experience from Gaza, Yemen, and the southern part of Syria shows that classical strategies of international humanitarian

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Pipelines and sanctions: Energy geopolitics between the Middle East and Europe

July 2025 The energy geopolitics in 2025 clearly show that the Middle East is once again taking up the central position in global supply, especially at a time when the European dependence on stable oil and gas flows is becoming highly pronounced. The sanctions against Russia, the chronic instabilities in Libya and Yemen, as well

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