Eurasia Press & News

With the EU ban on Ukrainian grain imports expiring on Friday, Poland and Hungary have both declared they intend to prolong the exclusion no matter what the European Commission wants. The knotty problem of Ukrainian grain flooding Central and Southeast European markets is back on the agenda as Hungary and …

En 1968, Robert Kennedy était assassiné alors qu’il venait de gagner les primaires de Californie, ce qui faisait de lui le favori dans la course présidentielle. Une fois à la Maison-Blanche, il aurait été en mesure de rouvrir l’enquête sur la mort de son frère cinq ans plus tôt, et …

Abstract: International recommendations on countering the financing of terrorism have been accepted as the benchmark when drafting national policies against terror financing. Still, the international recommendations are yet to clarify what needs to be included in terrorist financing. This paper examines the necessity to revise the international standards catered to …

Abstract: Much of the analysis of Russian war aims and motivations in Ukraine has pointed to the Russian ruling elite’s expansionism and nostalgic imperialism fueled by the ideology of Neo-Eurasianism. However, how this inherently expansionist Neo-Eurasian ideology extends beyond Ukraine has been given substantially less attention. Drawing on content and …

There is a long-suffering people in Sudan, they live on a rugged mountain in the middle of Darfur. Theirs is a primitive life but they are relatively free, they have their guns to protect themselves and their orange trees to sustain them. They seem to have been forgotten in today’s …

Geopolitics has become marginalized in modern international relations scholarship despite its foundational role. This essay seeks to bring geopolitics back to the mainstream of international relations through conceptual, historical, and theoretical analyses. I make three arguments. First, definitional confusion about geopolitics comes from an overly broad understanding of geography. Notwithstanding …

Saudi Arabia and its ambitious crown prince are looking ahead to a new world in which it will enjoy a more prominent place. Yet unless the kingdom makes further changes on both the diplomatic and domestic fronts, its aspirations are likely to run into roadblocks. Saudi Arabia is trying, with …

The BRICS Summit that concluded on the 24th of August 2023 in Johannesburg is a significant milestone in the journey towards a multi-polar world. From 5 members, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa it has now expanded into a 11-member alliance with the addition of Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, …

After the start of the Special Military Operation, many were indignant: how can there be a war in the highly advanced and civilized 21st century? On the face of it, the question looks quite reasonable, but only to those whose well-fed and beautiful Instagram life does not include another, less …

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has claimed that the world is transitioning to a new diplomatic order in which U.S. must lead the way in overcoming increasing threats from Russia and China by working with its allies to build trust among nations for whom the old system failed. The …