What is wrong with pacifism? Pacifist arguments, on the surface, seem logical: war is harmful, peace is desirable, and weapons lead to conflict. The notion that if all countries cease supplying ...

Ahmar is 19 years old and speaks good English. He acts as a leader of the group. Ahmar says he was a second-year economics student in Kabul. According to him, the family is escaping the Taliban, which ...

In a seminal research paper from 2001, the then Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jim O’Neill lumped together four standout emerging markets – namely Brazil, Russia, India and China. He believed they were ...

Despite more than five hundred years of Turkish rule, the majority of present-day Bulgarians demonise and reject “non-Bulgarian” – that is, Turkish, Muslim, or Roma – influences in their history and ...

The South Caucasus is no stranger to the plight of displaced persons. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, refugees and internally displaced persons have numbered in the hundreds of thousands due to ...

The term “brother nation” has traditionally been very popular within the foreign policies of the countries of the former USSR. The Kyrgyz Republic and other countries of Central Asia have also often ...

The war in Ukraine is obviously one of the most important geopolitical developments of the 21st century. Russia is clearly failing militarily in Ukraine, much of the developed world has placed harsh ...

In their recent article for New Eastern Europe, Ukrainian analysts Dmytro Zolotukhin and Valerii Pekar proposed a “re-federalisation” of Russia as a way to avoid its collapse, a prospect they find ...

A recent comment from a high-ranking Kremlin official concerning Hitler’s ancestry has sparked controversy. Whilst Germany’s wartime leader did not have a Jewish grandfather as claimed, the dictator’s ...