*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 MoreBy Dr Alaa Aldeek, Our Shangai-Based Expert Preface There has been an effectiveness of Chinese diplomacy towards resolving the Palestinian issue in all occasions and forums since the Bandung Conference in 1955, when China affirmed its rejection of foreign occupation and its support for national liberation movements aimed at self-determination.…
Read MoreI wonder if I can do this. As I write, fanatic Zionists are killing innocent Palestinian children. Although I am not a Jew, I share the view of many thinking Jews that Zionism is essentially a warped ideology. Perhaps, and to their credit, some of the most powerful and persuasive…
Read MoreΑμέτρητοι μύθοι γύρω από τη σπηλιά του Αγίου Μιχαήλ στο βράχο του Γιβραλτάρ. Κυριαρχεί όμως ο μύθος που υποστηρίζει ότι το συγκεκριμένο σπήλαιο ήταν οι πύλες του Άδη. Άρα και η είσοδος για τον Κάτω Κόσμο. Ακόμη ένας μύθος αναφέρει πως εκεί υπήρξε η μια από τις Ηράκλειες Στήλες,…
Read MorePRESS 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…
Read MoreIn 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…
Read MoreArchaeology goes beyond the mere study of the past through what remains of the past materially, but it also shapes how individuals and nations may see themselves in the modern age. European and American museums are confronted by requests of the return of artifacts bought or seized by colonial powers:…
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