Gerta Zaimi at Robert Lansing Institute

Iran will react or not after the killing of its general in Syria

When Imad Mughniyeh was killed in Damascus in February 2008, the reverberations of that execution extended beyond the region. It was not about a minor figure. Wherever he went, in…

December 28, 2023HAMAS, Iran, Israel, Palestine

Geopolitics Governance

The aggressive policy of Kosovar premier Albin Kurti has reached a breaking point with the US and the European powers

Relations between Kosovo and Serbia have undergone a clear deterioration since 2021, following the election of Albin Kurti as prime minister of Kosovo. Kurti came to power after a strong…

June 13, 2023Kosovo, Serbia, USA

Democracy Governance

Turkey after May 28 with or without Erdogan

The future of Turkey will be played on May 28, when the current president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu will go to the runoff. Erdogan's challenger is…

May 23, 2023Turkiye

Geopolitics Governance

The state of the conflict in Syria does not make it ready to consider institutional reforms that may satisfy some of the local actors

12 years after the start of the civil war in Syria, the country is facing a regional humanitarian crisis where over 13 million people, according to UN data, need help.…

May 1, 2023Iran, Syria, Turkiye

Geopolitics Opinion

We are probably not on the verge of a war for Taiwan

Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu is convinced that China is preparing for war, and preparing as best it can. He clearly stated it himself immediately after three days of large-scale…

April 19, 2023China, Taiwan, USA

Drug trafficking Geopolitics

Why does Saudi Arabia seek rapprochement with Bashar al-Assad?

The era of isolation for the President Bashar al-Assad's Syria seems to have ended even from Saudi Arabia, one of the countries that in 2011 took the initiative to break…

April 17, 2023captagon, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria

War crimes

The special Tribunal of Kosovo is born as a political choice, perhaps there will be a need for a political solution

The trial against the former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), Hashim Thaçi- former commander-in-chief of KLA and the other KLA heads, Kadri Veseli, Jakup Krasniqi and Rexhep Selimi…

April 6, 2023KLA, Kosovo

Geopolitics

The dialogue Pristina Belgrade highly likely restarts in Brussels

On February 27, it is very possible to be signed an agreement between Kosovo and Serbia based on the proposal that France and Germany have proposed to the leaders of…

February 21, 2023Kosovo, Serbia

Geopolitics

Milanovic’s pro-Russian stance enthuses nationalist spirits in Russia and Serbia, causing significant damage to Croatia

When in early 2020 Zoran Milanovic was elected president of Croatia after Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic of the Croatian Democratic Union, the result was greeted with enthusiasm in the Balkans. During the…

February 7, 2023Croatia

Conflict Geopolitics

Kosovo and Serbia lose if their leaders delay and deliberately block peace process

Intense diplomatic activity involving the European Union, the United States and in particular the German, French and recently Italy governments is affecting Kosovo and Serbia, in search of a new…

February 6, 2023Kosovo, Serbia

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