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,...
OSCE: Priorities for 2018 and beyond
Italy, which assumed the Chairmanship of the OSCE this year, is facing a difficult environment within the greater European region, characterised by a multitude...
Beyond the Munich Security Conference
It is worth remembering that the two major semi-governmental elite gatherings, the World Economic Forum in Davos and the Munich Security Conference, started off...
The G20’s contested future
G20 meetings are annual rituals which attract thousands of protestors. These mainly anti-globalisation and anti-establishment protests often turn violent, leading to a loss of...
Is America great again? Trump’s first year in office
One of the most alarming aspects of the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency is how little serious analysis there has been in the...
Is the WTO relevant for India?
Pressure on less developed countries from an increasingly belligerent US has caused the recent WTO gathering in Buenos Aires to end in an impasse.
The...