*Dr Alaa Aldeek is a Researcher at the Institute of Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy, Shanghai International Studies University As these lines are drawn the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China sits in its fourth plenary session (20-23 October 2025). Beijing’s brand of diplomacy has made extensive…
Read MoreOur Senior Research Associate Dr. Alaa Aldeek reviewed the current dilemmas and future possible solutions in Middle East governance, analyzing the crucial importance of Xi Jinping’s diplomatic thought, pointing out China’s unique diplomacy as a major power in the quest for the resolution of Middle East issues. Dr. Aldeek is…
Read MoreCo-Authors: Dr. Morris Mottale & Dr. Yiorghos Leventis At the end of the Cold War, in Washington and Western Europe there was a consensus that a new world order was coming around. Overlooked was the fact that an Islamic revolution in Iran led by an octogenarian…
Read MoreDr Yiorghos Leventis, Founder & Director of the International Security Forum, Cyprus participated upon invitation in the 14th Consultative Meeting of the EU Non-Proliferation & Disarmament Consortium held in Brussels on Tuesday, the 16th and on Friday, the 19th of September 2025. The two-day closed door discussion, attended by around sixty experts from…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreOften, 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…
Read MoreTheoretical Basis of the Geopolitical Thought & Practice of the Western World In the Rimland Theory, the renowned American political scientist Nickolas Spykman introduces the Inner Crescent Theory. The theory’s introduction forms the basis of America’s geopolitical thought and in extension the practice of the Western World. The Inner Crescent…
Read MoreThe issue of nuclear disarmament is seminal in world affairs. Its importance had dominated the agenda of relations between the liberal West and the communist East during the Cold War. Alas, more than a generation’s time since the fall of the Berlin Wall that signaled the end of the Cold…
Read MoreOn January 4, with the dawn of the new decade, Tehran announced that it had resumed uranium enrichment activities. This negative development is not surprising granted that the reconciliation path between Iran and the rest of the world was on the receiving end of several blows in the five-year period…
Read MoreThe Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference held every five years was due to take place this year 2020. Due to the covid-19 pandemic it is postponed to next year. The new deadline to convene the Tenth Review Conference is now set for August 2021. But what is the purpose…
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