The protests that broke out in Algeria three weeks ago culminated on Friday, March 8, over the candidacy for a 5th term of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, whose health has deteriorated since the serious stroke he suffered in 2013, and surprised many both in the country itself and abroad! Over the past 20 years […]
Social dialogue (between the state, parties and organised interests) is seen by social actors as a nuisance due to the way the political process has been shaped during the implementation of troika-based austerity. Representatives from youth organisations, farmers’ groups, consumer associations, small and medium-sized enterprises, non-governmental organisations and […]
Historically, there is an inextricable connection between diplomacy as a vehicle for interstate communication and the conduct of international economic relations. Economic diplomacy is a form of diplomatic relations, which is increasingly used by states, with the aim of promoting economic interests in the international market. By mobilizing intergovernmental relations and state prestige, the promotion of international trade and investment […]
Historically, there is an inextricable connection between diplomacy as a vehicle for interstate communication and the conduct of international economic relations. Economic diplomacy is a form of diplomatic relations, which is increasingly used by states, with the aim of promoting economic interests in the international market. By mobilizing intergovernmental relations and state prestige, the promotion of international trade and investment […]
It is truly tragic and shows the country's complete lack of strategy, both in the face of the revisionist strategy of Turkey under Tayyip Erdogan, and in the handling of a very good juncture in Greece's relations with the United States, the situation that prevails on these two fronts that are crucial to the national interest, especially when […]
Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, photo via Wikimedia Commons EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Competition among Middle Eastern rivals and ultimate power within the region's various alliances is increasingly as much economic and commercial as it is military and geopolitical. Battles are fought as much on geopolitical fronts […]
Yesterday was a day of celebration of an important national holiday for Greece and the Greek Nation. The anniversary of OXI, and what followed in the war against the Axis and Nazi Germany, is the moment in recent history when Greeks truly honored their glorious historical origins and traditions. Unfortunately, in today’s […]
The establishment in 1919 of the League of Nations (League of Nations) implemented the idea of a global organization for the maintenance of international peace and security. Both the League and its successor and similar organization, the United Nations (UN), which was established in 1945, were the institutional offspring of two factors. First, of the subsequent reflection, after the two World Wars […]
1. Changing international balances The situation in the wider Mediterranean and Middle East region is warlike, explosive, unpredictable. Wars and population movements of refugees and economic migrants to Europe have no end date. We also note the ineffectiveness of international organizations and agreements and the weakening of the global collective security system that […]
The importance of words The word diplomacy falls under the set of persons and services that deal with the international relations of a state. It is the science, the technique that is officially represented, within specific institutional frameworks, in governments of other states but also in international organizations. It constitutes the ability and capacity in the management of external […]
