China has repeatedly made territorial claims against neighboring states in recent decades – the Soviet Union, Japan, Pakistan, Vietnam, India, etc. January 15, 1974 is a special day in the history of the conflict in the South China Sea. Exactly forty...

Since the signing of the Iranian nuclear programme agreement by the US, Russia, China, France, Germany and Great Britain a new political situation has undeniably taken shape in the Middle East region. It is merely part of more extensive global changes evoked by the warming of the US’s...

Many questions remain over the arrest and ill treatment of Devyani Khobragade, the former Indian vice-council in New York. More is involved here than meets the eye. The case goes far beyond her allegedly underpaying an employee. U.S. labor rules require that...

As the date for the withdrawal of US and NATO coalition forces from Afghanistan fast approaches plans for what shape this 2014 Project should take have intensified on several levels: an intra-Afghan level, a bilateral Pakistan-Afghanistan level, and a regional level...

The situation around Iran continues to be quite difficult, despite significant progress in the normalization of relations between the West and Iran and the achievement of an interim agreement on the Iranian nuclear program in Geneva on November 24 at a working meeting...

On the eve of the new year of 2014, it seemed that negotiator parties (USA, Russia and UN managed to convince Syrian warring parties to sit down at the negotiating table in order to try to resolve the conflict peacefully. Even a specific date was designated for the next round of such a meeting...

Indian government has recently decided to delay the next round of the bilateral energy talks with the U.S. that was supposed to be held earlier this January. The diplomatic scandal that broke out a month ago is miles away from completion. The political bomb detonated on December 12, 2013 when...

Relations between India and the U.S. continue deteriorating after the discriminatory actions the U.S. authorities have taken in the regard of the Indian vice-consul Devyani Khobragade, that was arrested despite the fact that she was an official Indian representative to the UN. In response...

The US’ decision to effect “pivot” to Asia has also stimulated some major powers of Asia to build their strangleholds across different countries. The underlying logic for this policy shift is the threat perception they have from this and many other strategic moves of the US. In a...

Now there's little doubt that an international conference that could provide the so much needed aid in the settlement of the Syrian conflict , the so-called "Geneva -2" , which was supposed to open in Montreux , Switzerland on January 22 , is not going to open yet again. The reason for this...

In less than two weeks Tunisia will celebrate the third anniversary of the Jasmin revolution at a time when the future was never so  uncertain and so confusing . In fact as this date , 14th January the day Ben Ali run away , approaches more and more questions are raised, people are afraid of losing...

While the international co- mmunity summari- zes the achieve- ments of the year 2013, exerting even further efforts in reducing the risk of the armed violence spread in the Middle East (especially in Syria , as well as through the settlement of the Iranian nuclear program stand-off...