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“Probably shots are not heard as loudly in Central Park or Madison Square Garden as in Avdiivka industrial zone or Svitlodarsk Arc”; Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s words echoed through the …

“We are still disappointed, angry and a little bit frustrated, because we got a promise from the European Union that when we deliver, they would deliver — and they failed.”  …

A life size statue of Bruce Lee might seem like a strange choice for a park in Mostar, an Ottoman built frontier town in Bosnia and Herzegovina dating back to …

Were one to glance at some of the articles written in the last month about the Ukrainian presidential elections, they would be likely to come away with a rather negative …

In your book you explain that the initial motivation that pushed you to write it is constantly being asked the same questions by policy makers and politicians and argue that …

One year ago, former German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel stated “it is obvious that there can be no such thing as a German Ostpolitik today. It has to be a …

The recent rise of right-wing populism has caught the Western establishment firmly off-guard. Echoed in Fukuyama’s infamous political diagnosis that this was “the end of history”, the liberal status-quo established …

Protests broke out in Tirana, Albania, on 5 December over rising higher education tuition fees. Initial protestors originated from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanistics of the University of Tirana, …

Currently in Brussels, reform heralds significant changes for the European Union, but it is also in the East that the winds of change herald the reshaping of Europe. The 2004 …

Few states have done more to capture global attention in recent years than the Russian Federation. The invasion and annexation of eastern Ukraine, the devastating intervention in Syria, the election …