“It is very good to discuss agreements with a credible squad behind you”, this phrase, then credited to the Baron of Rio Branco, can be flagged as dated, but it cannot be denied that, as a statesman o...

Triggered by the October 7th attacks from Hamas against Israel, the conflict in Gaza completes one year amidst civilian massacre, hostages still in the posession of Hamas, protests in Israel and genoc...

Scheduled for November 5th, the American Presidential Election is being followed all over the world due to its international implications. Not only in the domestic arena of the United States, but in U...

It did not even take a hundred years for the far right to regain strength in Germany and for the traditional parties to be corrupted by their popular appeal. Many things may come to mind when you thin...

THE CLASSICAL VIEW OF GEOPOLITICS At the end of the Second World War, career diplomat George Kennan helped shape the geostrategic thinking of the United States, which in turn would shape the Cold War...

At a time when political reflection is becoming empty, it is imperative to look beyond appearances and superficial rhetoric. Last week we came across the president of Venezuela, and candidate for re-e...

In February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. What many thought unlikely has happened and as is the case with many ongoing conflicts, predictions have been proved less than accured. The war not only began...

In 2005, Vladimir Putin, starting his second term as president of the still-young Russian Federation, declared that the collapse of the Soviet Union was “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the l...

FOTO: AFP/Getty Images As Colin Gray rightly points out, strategic history is dependent on the course of political history. In this sense, it is not difficult to conceive that the development of an In...

The first woman to become prime minister in Italy is right-wing. Silvio Berlusconi, former Italian Prime Minister and her ally during the campaign that elected her, described her as: “Obstinate, overb...