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Turkish – Armenian Rapprochement: Renewed Interest?

CESRAN Int.5 August 20177 August 2017

The international media has shown renewed interest in the revitalization of Turkish-Armenian relations, which has spawned a number of conferences and meetings. It comes as no surprise that during the...

Film Reviews

What is so Good About The Sopranos?

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

This review looks at what is quality television and what makes The Sopranos so successful. ―Quality Television‖ term has started to be used by critics and scholars after 1990s to...

China and Neighbourhood

The Missing Leader

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

Where is Jiang? As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was celebrating its 90th anniversary on July 1, 2011 one of the key things that fixated China Watchers was that former...

Interviews

Interview with Dr. Alexandros Nafpliotis

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

Many Greeks believe that the dichotomy between a Greek civil service, which is perceived as slow, well-paid and overstretched and on the other hand of a private sector, which carries...

China and Neighbourhood

Conflict in the “South China Sea‟

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

The dispute in the „South China Sea‟ is, as widely known, a multistate affair. Cook (2011), in an interview with Ian Storey, showed that tensions have been escalating in this...

Defense & Security Europe Russia and Eurasia

The Mistral Warship Deal: What’s in for France and Russia?

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

After two years of negotiations, Russia and France signed a treaty of military cooperation on June 17, 2011 under which two Mistral-class amphibious assault ships, together with their full technological...

Russia and Eurasia

“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...