2017 – Page 9 – CESRAN International

“Waves” of the Russia’s Presidential Reforms Break About Premier’s “Energy-Rocks”

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

In late March of this year, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev demanded that high-ranking officials – namely, deputy prime ministers and cabinet-level ministers that co-ordinate state policy in the same sectors...

Russia and Eurasia

Russia-Georgia Relations: Among Illusions and Visions

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

Leaving public opinion aside, the leadership of all post-Soviet countries enjoy reasonably amicable relations with Russia The exception is Georgia, whose ongoing conflict with Russia is recognized as the most...

Russia and Eurasia

Bhutan Cements Its Democracy

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

At the end of June the picturesque Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan held its first ever local elections. Over recent years this tiny country of around 700,000 has been undergoing a...

Russia and Eurasia

Afghanistan after a Decade: Progress and Challenges Ahead

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

It has been almost a decade since international community with mandate of United Nations has intervened in Afghanistan to oust the Taliban regime, dismantle the web of terror and above...

Defense & Security Middle East

A New War on Terror?

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

Just when the threat of Islamist terrorism seemed to be successfully suppressed, the actions of Breivik bring awareness of the evil engendered by other extremist ideologies. When a Muslim terrorist...

Interviews

Interview with José-María Siles

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

Although he was born in the heart of Andalusia, Spain, those who know him are quick to point out that his perfectionism in work seems more Swiss than Spanish. Some...

Africa

Rebuilding a „New‟ Libya & Implications for International Politics

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

On 1 September 1969, exactly 42 years ago, the Libyan revolution‘ was launched by a coup d’état against King Idris under the leadership of a young military officer, Muammer Gaddafi....

Africa

Libya: Human Security Challenges

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

Human Security conceptualisation analyses the interface between security, development and intervention. Traditionally, 'security' mostly referred to the security of nation-states in the context of military conflicts with foreign powers. Traditional...

Africa

Post-Gaddafi Reconstruction of Libya

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

On 19 August 2011, Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, Vice-Chairman of National Transition Council (NTC), the rebel group fighting against the Colonel Gaddafi regime in Libya announced that ‗The zero hour has...

Africa

Africa’s missing Ebola outbreaks

CESRAN Int.23 July 201723 July 2017

During the fallout from the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which killed more than 11,000 people, one of the questions asked of the World Health Organisation (WHO) was why...

Energy & Environment

On Earth Day 2017 I Ask What Will It Take to Not Have to Have an Earth Day 2100?

CESRAN Int.24 April 201723 July 2017

Today we honour the Earth in a tradition that is now going on almost 50 years. The first Earth Day was instituted during the administration of President Richard Nixon as...

CESRAN Blog Turkey and Neighbourhood

Sundays Referendum: Electoral Implications

CESRAN Int.18 April 201718 April 2017

After a heated campaign period, the “yes camp” claimed victory on Sunday night in Turkey’s referendum which changes the political system from a parliamentary system to a presidential one. The...

CESRAN Blog Turkey and Neighbourhood

Constitutional Referendum in Turkey: Victory vs. Great Divide

CESRAN Int.18 April 201731 August 2017

According to the early results of the referendum, held on 16 April 2017, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his ruling Justice and Development Party, or AK Party, have claimed victory....

CESRAN Blog International Economics

Artificial Intelligence: ‘Frankenstein’ or Capitalist Money Machine

CESRAN Int.4 March 20175 March 2017

Introduction The Financial Times’ Special Report (2/16/2017) published a four-page spread on the ‘use and possible dangers of artificial intelligence (AI)’. Unlike the usual trash journalists who serve as Washington’s...

China and Neighbourhood

How to think clearly about North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction

CESRAN Int.4 March 20175 March 2017

Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of current North Korean strongman Kim Jong-un, passed away under circumstances as bizarre as they were suspicious. As in a game of Cluedo, we now have just...