ISF Director Hectic Programme of International Activities November 2023 – March 2024

PRESS RELEASE MARCH 2024 The winter season that we have just left behind, November 2023 to March 2024, has been very hectic in our director’s international activities. Below is the list of in-person participations in international fora. November 2023 Dr. Yiorghos Leventis took part, upon invitation, in the 7th Southeast…

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Κρίση της Ευρωπαϊκής Αρχιτεκτονικής Ασφάλειας. Θέσεις για την Ομαλοποίηση της Κατάστασης στην Ουκρανία

Η Ουκρανική κρίση με τα τόσα θύματα και από τις δύο αντιμαχόμενες πλευρές είναι η κορύφωση μιας βαθύτερης κρίσης. Αυτή είναι η επί μακρόν υποβόσκουσα κρίση στις δομές της Ευρωπαϊκής Αρχιτεκτονικής Ασφάλειας. Αρκετοί Δυτικοί αναλυτές, ακαδημαϊκοί και σύμβουλοι εξωτερικής/αμυντικής πολιτικής, πολιτικής ασφάλειας σημειώνουν ότι στην δεκαετία του ’90 δεν θα…

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Ukraine Crisis: Decoding Kremlin’s Perspective

Dr. Yiorghos Leventis & Mr. Elias Hadjikoumis In 2014, brother nations (“bratskie narodi”) Russia and Ukraine, united by common cultures, mentalities, customs, traditions and closely related languages, became enemies. They have remained so for eight years now. The main reason behind this negative development has been the geopolitical game between…

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Europe, Immigration and Sustainability

In the year 2021, the notion of security as an overarching concept in Europe centered on a critical debate on immigration and sustainability. Both themes were the subject of national, international, and European political debates shaped by more immediate fears and anxiety stoked by the COVID pandemic. These themes were…

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Huge Costs for American Debacle in Afghanistan

The last deadly double explosions in the grounds of Kabul airport put in sharp relief – if one more was ever needed – of the US and its allies’ utter failure in the twenty-year Afghanistan democratization project. International news agencies reported that at least ninety Afghan civilians and thirteen American…

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Turkey’s Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant : Cause of Concern

Turkey is an energy hungry economy. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) assessment of Turkey’s energy needs in 2020, the country currently imports approximately 72% of its energy demand. The level of dependency on energy imports is overwhelmingly high for our northern neighbour inhabited by no less than…

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Turkey and Pakistan Working in Tandem

Often, the preoccupation with our national problem lacks international comparative analysis. It borders navel gazing. In this article, I wish to highlight Ankara’s success story in getting its own man fill in one of the UN’s top jobs along with forging of close relations with nuclear power Muslim Pakistan, a…

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Βρετανικές Βάσεις εκ Νέου στο Προσκήνιο (2) Πέντε Χρόνια Μετά …

Προ πενταετίας, δημοσιεύσαμε, ένα κείμενο με τον ίδιο τίτλο σ’ αυτήν την ιστοσελίδα και στον «Φιλελεύθερο» (Οκτώβρης 2016) με αφορμή μια μικρής εμβέλειας Βρετανική αυθαιρεσία στο δασύλλιο Ξυλοφάγου. Σήμερα η Κυπριακή κοινή γνώμη κοχλάζει από αγανάκτηση για την Βρετανική στάση στις διαβουλεύσεις για την περιβόητη δήλωση – τοποθέτηση του Προέδρου…

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