Since 17 October 2019, Lebanon has both felt paralyzed and restless at the same time. Following the announcement of new taxes with relation to telecommunications services, people spontaneously took to the streets to protest.
Abschreckung Im Wahlkampf 2016 hatte US-Präsident Donald Trump erklärt, dass Nuklearwaffen, wenn sie Sinn haben sollen, auch einsetzbar sein müssen. Das ist weniger deutlich ausgesprochen Teil der US-Nuklearstrategie der siebziger Jahre. Dafür wurde Trump von den Medien heftig kritisiert, sollen diese doch nur der Abschreckung und nicht dem Einsatz dienen. …
Introduction: what the 2015 JCPOA entails In July 2015 the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was agreed upon between the EU, China, Russia, the US, France, Germany, the UK and Iran. After a decade of trying to reach a nuclear deal, it was deemed historic. The deal was meant …
Protests in Hong Kong, now in their fourth month, continue to follow a trend of steady escalation. Originally triggered by the local government’s introduction of an “extradition law” that would have cleared the way for Hong Kong citizens to be tried by mainland
Kosovo is facing a special situation with persistent struggles. Therefore, we will take a closer look on the country 20 years after the
Sudan’s Interim Constitutional Arrangement: The Risk of Sharing a Non-Existent Cake The tense negotiations on a transitional power-sharing framework in Sudan finally appear to have been successful. The Constitutional Charter for the Transition Period, signed on 17 August 2019, establishes a Sovereignty Council with an equal representation of five civilians …
Die terroristische Gefahr ist mit der Niederschlagung der letzten IS-Hochburgen im März 2019 in Syrien nicht gebannt. Russland hat in einer Allianz mit Iran und der Türkei
Twenty years after the war in Kosovo, there is now a whole generation of youngsters who have little or no memory of the war or had not even been born at the time of conflict. This generation, making Kosovo the country with
10 years after the launch of the Eastern Partnership (EaP), the EU finds itself in a strategic dilemma: On the one hand the ‘European aspirations’ of many of the Eastern partners are the driving force behind their domestic democratic reform process;
With the continuation of the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine, it appears that unfortunately negotiations are no longer the bright prospect they once were. On February 12, 2019, the UN’s Assistant Secretary-General for Europe,
