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Classical Eurasianism and the Geopolitics of Russian Identity

CESRAN Int.1 April 2014

Prof. Mark BASSIN One of the great fascinations of studying nationalist ideologies is to follow the complex process by which foreign notions and perspective are absorbed, rescripted and resignified,...

Russia and Eurasia

Eurasianism Classical and Neo The Lines of Continuity

CESRAN Int.1 April 2014

Prof. Mark Bassin Eurasianism, as Stephen Shenfield reminds us, means many things. Indeed, this is if anything an understatement, for the term has emerged as one of the...

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CENTRAL ASIAN, RUSSIAN, AND CAUCASUS STUDIES (CARCS)

CESRAN Int.1 April 2014

Central Asian, Russian and Caucasus Studies focuses on a region that has witnessed major political and economic changes in recent decades. Dissolution of the USSR has affected not only this...

Africa

Why Did Algeria Not Know Its Own Arab Spring? The Islamic Hypothesis

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

According to asurvey conductedin 2012 by the ArabBarometer, 84.5% of Algeriansare not interestedin politics and 52% donot have faith in the political system. Such lack of confidencemight suggestthat Algeria isready...

Africa

Are Local Government Authorities Sleeping Over Chinese Involvement In Small Scale Mining In Ghana?

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

The upsurge of China’s economic supremacy is being monitored carefully in many parts of the worldlargely because the impact of this new ‘economic power house’ would have significant implications for...

Africa

Entrepreneurship Insecurity, Smuggling And Cross-Border Dynamics In Central Africa

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

Central Africa, as a geopolitical complex and security complex, is plagued since independences to the dynamics of insecurity and border smuggling, structured around the mechanic of networks and the entrepreneurship...

Africa

French Intervention In Mali: Implications And Consequences

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

After pressure on the Provisional Government of Mali and the United Nations for a military intervention, France has a started a military operation called Operation Serval in the north of...

Africa

Turkey and Peacebuilding in Africa: leadership, youth and conflict transformation

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

Turkey’s position bridging Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and its growing economic and political power, make it an increasingly important regional and international actor in terms of security, leadership...

Africa

The Dynamics and the Roots of the France’s Security Policy Towards Africa

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

France has “special” economic and political relations with Francophone African countries, dating back to the 19th century, and retains its military bases in Gabon, Senegal, the Ivory Coast, Djibouti, and the...

Africa

How Turkey is Emerging as a Development Partner in Africa

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

Turkey provides assistance for relief aid and reconstruction, but also works as a business partner and invests in youth education. BY PROFESSOR ALPASLAN OZERDEM | APRIL 13, 2013 Turkey has...

Africa

Sudan and South Sudan’s Unresolved Post-Independence Issues

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

BY PROFESSOR STEFAN WOLFF | AUGUST 18, 2012 On 2 August 2012, a deadline set by the African Union and endorsed by the Un Security Council for Sudan and...

Africa

Responsibility to Protect and Mediation Lessons from the 2007-2008 Post-Election Crisis in Kenya

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

The mediation in the 2007-2008 post-election violence in Kenya is recognized as a successful application of the responsibility to protect (R2P) through mediation. This paper investigates how and why it was...

Africa

Yemen’s Transition: Key Challenges for the National Dialogue

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

Ali Abdullah Saleh’s autocratic rule in Yemen comes to an end on 21 February 2012 after 33 years as a new interim president is elected in the country which remains deeply fragile...

Africa

What next for Saif Gaddafi, Libya and the ICC?

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

On Monday 21st January a deadline that it now appears was not only arbitrary but also purely notional elapsed. This was the deadline for the current Libyan government to tell...

Africa

Somalia: “A famine Caused by Men, not by Global Warming”

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

Written by T. J. COLES In 2006, Britain and America began a proxy war in Somalia by training Ethiopian warlords to invade the country in order to destroy the government,...