
UK’s exit strategy from ‘ever closer union’
By Syed Qamar Rizvi.
Introduction
British Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to hold referendum before the end of 2017,while renegating the terms of Britain’s EU membership.The critics of the Uk’s euroscecptic [...]

A Scientific Means for Islamic Military Alliance to Collaborate and Deploy
By Dr. David Leffler.
The state-run Saudi Press Agency has announced that 34 nations are forming a new “Islamic military alliance” to fight terrorism.
But will this new alliance really be able to prevent future terrorist [...]

Information warfare in the Information Age
By Sebastian Sarbu.
Abstract: Information war represents a real non-conventional threat which in the context [...]

Moving South Asia from acrimony to peace and trust building
By Syed Qamar Rizvi.
Introduction
Recently,some positive developments have rekindled the beam of hopes to the peace optimists in South Asia: first, the meeting between the premiers of India and Pakistan on the side lines of [...]

The internal and external dimensions of Russian – Turkish controversy
By George Protopapas.
Russia and Turkey seem to compose the two sides of a “communication game” in order to expose each other as culprit in international diplomacy. The shooting down of Russian Su-24 bomber [...]

Ecological Globalistan – Political Terroristan
By Anis Bey.
Speaking in Paris on December 7, 2015 – only a morning after the landslide victory of the far right French political party, the UN Secretary General again reminded the world leaders that: “More than 1 billion people [...]

Containing Daesh?
By Syed Qamar Rizvi.
Introduction
Intermittently, after the Paris terrorist attacks, now comes the incident of California mass shooting– apparently a terrorist-driven crime, killing 14 and injuring 21 ,whose linkage is [...]

Turkey- Russia rift and Nato’s strategy
By Qamar Syed.
Introduction
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has warned Russia’s President Vladimir Putin not to “play with fire” over his country’s downing of a Russian war plane.Russia [...]

Political strategy? Cruz, Obama, and Eligibility
By Nelson Hultberg.
I recently wrote an article, “Trump’s VP Choice and Eligibility,” which you may have read and passed on to others. If anyone has disputed the article to you, linked below is an updated and much better [...]

CSTO’s growing role in Central Asia
By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi.
Introduction
The Russian president Putin has currently hinted that Moscow can not rule out its role in Central Asia, particularly in Afghanistan . As outlined in Russia’s NSS, Moscow regards the Collective [...]

Points to pounder: Islam in the western world
By Jaime Ortega.
Muslim prayer in the middle of Parisian street.
Muslims are accountable for not containing radical Islam in the Middle East and Europe. The notion in western countries is that even though moderate Muslims condemn [...]

What Will Russia Get from Attacks in Paris?
By Igor Muradyan.
When politics has collapsed, and no good expectations are seen on the horizon, especially given the bad economic situation, the political leadership clings to disputable expectations, presenting illusions for [...]

Italian Foreign Terrorist Fighters: Numbers, features and case studies
By Alessandro Boncio.
Since the rise of the self-proclaimed Caliph Abu Bakr al Baghdadi[ii], the foreign terrorist fighters phenomenon acquired an exceptional interest in the law enforcement, intelligence and academic communities of [...]

The Paris carnage: Rethinking the strategy of ‘global security’
By Syed Qamar Azfal.
The Paris carnage of November 13,a European 9/11 , killing 132 and causing 352 injured, has made us bound to think that the war on terror against Al Qaeda is not over simply because the resurrected Al- Qaeda’s networks [...]

Paris bombing and ‘western terrorism’ policy
By Jon Kofas.
The bombing that took place in Paris with many casualties was a human tragedy and a political disaster for Western anti-terrorism policy. A day before ISIS suicide bombers in Paris, the bombing in Beirut, Lebanon demonstrated [...]

Africa in the 21st Century: Legacy of Imperialism and Development Prospects
By Jon Kofas.
Abstract
This essay argues that Africa is undergoing changes in its economies in the 21st century, not only because of the role that China is playing but owing to intense competition from other Western countries [...]

The Middle East’s Perfect Storm?
By Gary A. Grappo.
Summary: Events in the Middle East appear to be converging, making for a dangerously combustible mix and further complicating decisions for policy makers.
In Syria, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinian Territories, [...]

The Middle East: Rising and Falling Start
By Fadi El-Husseini.
In 2011, Turkey was seen as an unstoppable regional power and a rising star led by its Development and Justice Party (AKP). But the arrival of the Arab Spring heralded a deep change in the region. Turkey’s prominence [...]

Nationalism will firmly unite the nation
By Jaime Ortega.
In my past arguments, I stated that Neo-Liberalism demonizes nationalist values pushing in favor of radical social democratic reforms to weaken the military muscle that sustains the pillars of American hegemony. Neo-liberalism [...]

Russian-Syrian times are changing
By Federico Schiavio.
Assad, after four years of blood and tears, won the day. Who lost and why, but first, let’s start with the military forces in the field:
Syrian Army – 280,000 men strong before the war, now about 140,000 [...]