Gjovalin Shkurtaj-In her recent book, “The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq” (PublicAffairs 2015) Emma Sky, former political adviser to General Ray Odierno the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, quotes Vice President Joe Biden about the Obama administration’s intentions to withdraw from the region. According to Sky,Continue Reading

Geopolitical Monographs:Center for Security Studies and Developemnt-Macedonia (CSSD) World is changing, although Europe especially Northern Europe becomes a part of geopolitics.The Swedish Great Power period in the 17th century was made possible because of both internal and external causes. In the middle of the 16th century, when the German OrderContinue Reading

Simon Sebag Montefiore-Moscow lacks the resources to replace America and will find in Syria a quagmire, but Russians feel that a great imperial Russia has always been a player in the Middle East — and boldness counts for much in this wild world. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/09/opinion/putins-imperial-adventure-in-syria.html?ref=opinion&_r=0Continue Reading

General characteristics- The Western Balkan route describes two main migratory flows: from the Western Balkan countries themselves, and the secondary movements of mainly Asian migrants who originally entered the European Union through the Bulgarian-Turkish or Greek-Turkish land or sea borders and then proceed, through the Western Balkans, into Hungary. ThisContinue Reading

The foreign ministers of Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary and Greece are expected to sign a memorandum on the construction of the Tesla pipeline, which should connect the Turkish Stream pipeline with Austria. The document is scheduled to be signed in September, Russian newspaper Vedomosti reports. The pipeline, which is a continuationContinue Reading

BUREAU OF COUNTERTERRORISM Country Reports on Terrorism 2014 Report EUROPE While Europe continued to face terrorist threats from a variety of sources in 2014, a primary area of concern in many countries was the emergence of the threat posed by foreign terrorist fighters participating in the conflict in Syria andContinue Reading