UNESCO Survey 2017
The UNESCO Survey on intercultural dialogue 2017 sought to evaluate the conceptual understanding of intercultural dialogue across member states and the extent to which...
Building a new reality for the Korean peninsula takes grit, skill, and commitment
Globalization is all about dismantling inherited barriers to interaction. International collaboration within the expert community forms the broader foundations for political cooperation. Xi Jinping’s speech at this year’s Davos Forum stressed how globalization must mean stripping away barriers to economic cooperation. At the...
Austria and the EU Council presidency
Those who watched the annual New Year’s Day concert at the Wiener Musikverein saw the Austrian President, Alexander Van Der Bellen, welcome two heads...
The importance of being honest: Values delusion or how fake news creates fake history
Had Professor Francis Fukuyama written his book The End of History today, he might instead have chosen the title ‘The End of Diplomacy’. That...
Elements of a road map for European security
Moscow and Berlin continue to sharply disagree on many critical international matters. After the Ukraine crisis, ‘business as usual’ has been impossible and will...
Will Artificial Intelligence decide over life or death in the near future?
Self-driving vehicles operated by intelligent algorithms, carrying people to their destinations safely and with ease, have long been a desirable innovation. Today, from a...
The heyday of power politics in Syria
Within a few years the Syrian Arab Republic has become a textbook example of power politics, but in a more modern and sophisticated form....
How the Soviet elite lost faith in socialism in the 1980s
As early theoreticians of socialism believed, a centrally planned economy organised rationally – the whole society working as one single plant – should be...
A treacherous path to understanding contemporary Russia
Despite all the rhetoric, any objective researcher should accept that since the collapse of the USSR, Russia’s leadership in the post-Soviet period, including Vladimir...
A wake-up call for Europe
European politics and Europe’s position in the world are confronted by severe challenges. In security terms, the fair-weather option of the last 25 years,...