Key points: The situation in Afghanistan demonstrates the ineffectiveness of the US and NATO mission to train the defense and security forces of Afghanistan. A US troop withdrawal can be either a strategic mistake or a...
June 2021
Farkhod Tolipov“EAEU Sanctions”: Challenges and Risks for Partner-Countries
New Geopolitics Research Network presents an analytical note prepared on the results of a round table organized with the analytical center “A + Analytics”, with the support of the information and analytical...
NGRNGeopolitics For Giants And Dwarfs
Authors: Zlatko Hadžidedić and Adnan Idrizbegović June 2021 was far more than just dynamic in terms of global politics: President Biden’s inaugural foreign visit was organized as a coordinated gathering of the...
Zlatko HadžidedićUkraine and Bulgaria: at the cross point of regional powers
The New Geopolitics Research Network brings to your attention a summary of Valeriy Ratchev (former senior government official and military officer, expert at the Center for Security and Defense Management at the...
Russia – Turkey relations in the South Caucasus after the 2020 Karabakh war: View from Armenia
Russia – Turkey relations are probably among the most discussed topics of Eurasian geopolitics. Experts and pundits are frantically searching for the correct terms to describe them – cooperation/competition, the...
Benyamin PoghosyanWhat risks does the EAEU bring to partner countries?
NGRN, together with the analytical center “A+ Analytics”, with the support of the information and analytical portal Platon Asia and analytical magazine “Exclusive” on June 10, 2021, organized a...
Yurii PoitaBelgrade-Pristina negotiations: Dialogue or misunderstanding?
By Kateryna Shymkevych The negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo resumed in Brussels with the mediation of the EU in July 2020. However, the normalization of relations, as hoped for in the EU, did not happen. Expert...
An interim agreement between Belgrade and Pristina – a way to break the impasse?
Two mediators, Miroslav Lajčak and Matthew Palmer, visited Pristina and Belgrade to set the stage for the expected continuation of the political dialogue between the two sides. That they have come to the region together...
Marko SavkovicTo contain Putin, contain corruption
Sanctioning Bulgaria’s oligarchs Better late than never. US President Joe Biden’s Executive Order (EO) 13181 last week means that the West is finally taking action against the long-recognised and long-dominant wayward...
Ilian VassilevUkraine & Bulgaria: Historic ties and modernity
The New Geopolitics Research Network brings to your attention a summary of Vassil Sotirov (Vice President, European Journalist Association (the communication network) speech, made during online webinar “Geopolitics. 30...