Terrorists seem to have figured out the connection between climate change and water scarcity and they are ready to benefit from its side effects, such as frequent droughts and high temperatures to support their cause. Here is one reason more why we should be more concerned about what we are doing to our planet. — When we come across the term “terrorism”, the first idea we come up with is a violent attack upon a person’s life which may cause death or serious injuries, but a definition of “terrorist crimes” is much wider: although there is no universally agreed-upon definition of terrorism under the International…

On November 24th, representatives of the European Union met with the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, members of the so-called “Eastern Partnership” (Eap). Conceived as a framework to help these countries out of the turmoil and poor governance of the post-soviet years, its function as antechamber…

The operation is officially referred to as “counter-terrorism” after a rebel group, the so-called Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), attacked and killed border guards in the western state of Rakhine in late August, causing a large scale backlash by the central government. Following mass killings, rapes and arson of villages…

We thought we had become used to the unthinkable, and yet politics always finds a way to surprise us. The death of the so-called Jamaica coalition in its infancy (named after the yellow, black and green party colors of its participants) puts the chancellor in a dangerous position. With the…

Migration is considered an issue as long as European borders are questioned and threatened, otherwise it is to be underestimated. Indeed, the unprecedented crisis that Turkey has been facing was not thoroughly analyzed nor given enough importance. While Turkey response to such an escalating crisis has been almost impeccable, considering…

The more civil society opens up, the more difficult it becomes to sustain an autocracy. King Salman knows that the key factor here is the continued suppression of civil society activity. The more civil society are established, the more difficult it becomes to sustain an autocracy, in particular, to the…

One has to show respect where respect is due. Despite parading a total GDP comparable to the combined economic output of the Paris and London metropolitan areas, Russia appears to be once again a power to be reckoned with in international affairs. Propaganda efforts and military interventions have shown a…