Six months after the breakthrough deal between Iran and the P5+1 group in July 2015, the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, International Atomic Energy Agency, declared on Jan. 16 that Iran has complied with the initial requirements of the “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.”
Looking through the recent punditry on Cyprus, one inevitably feels a sense of déjà vu, as there appears to be nothing new regarding the age-old problem of the Eastern Mediterranean
Turkey is a complicated country. It’s not just foreign observers – citizens also fail to make sense from time to time given the fast-changing agenda
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the last day of 2015, approving a document that updates and replaces Russia’s existing National Security Strategy (NSS) paper, which had been in force since 2009
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center and Pentagon by al-Qaeda-affiliated extremists were a watershed event in international politics as they signaled, among other things, the unmistakable rise of non-state actors and their potential impact on the global security environment
The international security agenda and the theoretical ways to study it have expanded tremendously since the end of the Cold War
At long last, after years of bickering and weeks of intense bargaining, the world’s leaders acknowledged the current dismal state of the environment in Paris on Dec. 11 and pledged their support to attempt to prevent a global catastrophe in the foreseeable future by agreeing on several preventive measures
The downing of a Russian aircraft by Turkey after repeated warnings over violation of its national airspace on Nov. 24 has created sudden tension in Turkish-Russian relations after years of rapport
Europe has been struggling for some time to cope with its disgruntled Muslim minorities, increasing refugee flows, and homegrown terrorists who radicalize through global jihadist cells and gain experience on the ground around the world before returning to create trouble
