China’s Influence in Balkans and Central and Eastern Europe

China’s Influence in Balkans and Central and Eastern Europe

  DOWNLOAD FULL REPORT – PDF   Among its members are eleven EU member states (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Romania, Croatia Slovenia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) as well as Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia,...
U.S. Challenge in the Arctic

U.S. Challenge in the Arctic

    So far, much has been said about the geopolitical and economic importance of the Arctic; it, however, seems that competition over the region has entered upon an entirely new stage. This is mainly because of an ever-increasing pace of climate change, the...
Washington Favors the Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline

Washington Favors the Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline

SOURCE: GAZPROM.COM   The Division of the Caspian Waters The draft project for constructing an offshore gas pipeline in the Caspian Sea has remained at the heart of the U.S. concerns since the 1990s. And yet Washington might not have sent any blatant signals if the...
NATO–Russia Relations: The Return of the Enemy

NATO–Russia Relations: The Return of the Enemy

SOURCE: NATO.INT DOWNLOAD PDF VERSION   “A revisionist Russia is the primary threat to a stable Euro-Atlantic security environment,” the commander of NATO forces in Europe, U.S. General Curtis Scaparrotti, said in testimony before the U.S. Senate. He...