Frank E. Sysyn 14 February 2022
Russia’s refusal to accept the post-1989 regional settlement is cultural and religious just as much as political, explains prof. Frank Sysyn.
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- Andrea Graziosi 14 February 2022To craft a rational approach to Russia’s military threat, Europe first needs to come to terms with Vladimir Putin’s mindset, writes prof. Andrea Graziosi.
- José Casanova 14 February 2022As Vladimir Putin has made clear, a military intervention in Ukraine would be the direct consequence of Russia’s refusal to accept the post-1989 order, in political, security and even cultural-religious terms – writes prof. José Casanova in the introduction to our dedicated Dossier.
- Luca Steinmann 1 February 2022As ordinary Afghans struggle to find food and medecines, the Emirate desperately looks for international recognition, and aid. Reportage from Kabul.
- Mariano Giustino 19 January 2022Fresh talks and concrete gestures are pointing to a possible, historic normalization of relations in Southern Caucasus. What’s driving the process?
- Andrea Walton 11 November 2021Covid-battered Bulgaria is heading to polls for the third time in a year. But a hung Parliament looms, again.
- Seán Golden 30 August 2021The failure of America’s military mission to Afghanistan – just like the former Soviet one – now leaves room to test China’s different approach to international affairs. Can it deliver any progress to a disgraced country?
- Luca Steinmann 14 April 2021As most Syrians stil grapple with a full-scale humanitarian crisis afer ten years of destruction, regional powers are competing to secure influence on the country’s reconstruction, and future balance.
- Luca Steinmann 4 March 2021Domestic instability in Armenia (and Georgia), a geopolitical “upgrading” for Azerbaijan. A discussion on the consequences of the latest Caucasus war with analyst Giuliano Bifolchi.
- Evan Pheiffer 26 February 2021The new US administration may well change its approach to Turkey, yet Erdoğan’s regime is unlikely to significantly review the foundations of its self-assigned macro-regional role— that of a revisionist player, ready to embark on a number of political and military adventures to assert its power and “right the wrongs of colonialism”. Yet someone, at some point, will call the bluff. So claims historian Kerem Öktem, a leading scholar on contemporary Turkish history and politics, in this talk with Reset DOC discussing AKP’s foreign policy in the age of Biden.
