EDITORIAL

Shaul Shay
(Senior research fellow at the International Institute for Counter-terrorism (ICT) at the Interdisciplinary Centre Herzliya and former deputy head of Israel’s National Security Council)

Copyright: @ 2024 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 4 December 2024

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Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and allied factions have launched a surprise attack against the Assad regime forces in Idlib province on November 27, 2024. The offensive began after rebels formed a new coalition called the “Military Operations Command.” The new grouping is made up of a broad spectrum of opposition forces, from Islamist factions to moderates. The leader of the new coalition is Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a former al Qaeda affiliate in Syria that used to go by the name Al-Nusra Front... Read more

By Dr. Ilias Iliopoulos
(Dr. Ilias Iliopoulos was awarded his Ph.D. (Dr. phil) from the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich. He has long been a Professor at the Hellenic National Defence College, the Hellenic Naval War College and the American College of Greece. He is currently teaching International Relations and History, Strategy, and Geopolitics at the Department of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies of the National University of Athens, Greece)

Copyright: @ 2024 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 1 December 2024

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The President of the Republic of Korea (broadly known as South Korea) Yoon Suk-yeol held an impressive speech on the occasion of the Liberation Day, 15 August 2024, in which he reaffirmed  Seoul’s  commitment to the unification of both parts of the Korean peninsula. President Yoon Suk-yeol went so far to declare that his country would ‘keep the door to inter-Korean dialogue wide open’; and even more significantly, he did so despite Kim Jong-un’s announcement at the end of 2023 of a new Two Koreas Policy, which defined the so called Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (i.e., North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (a.k.a. South Korea) as ‘two belligerent states’, thus abandoning the policy of ‘peaceful unification’ which had been the declared objective of the Communist North since decades, at least in theory.... Read more

John A. Calabrese
(Dr. John Calabrese teaches international relations at American University in Washington, DC. He is the book review editor of The Middle East Journal and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute (MEI). He previously served as director of MEI's Middle East-Asia Project (MAP).

Copyright: @ 2024 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 23 November 2024

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On October 28, NATO confirmed that North Korean troops have been deployed to Kursk, the Russian region that is partly controlled by Ukraine. This deepening military cooperation between Russia and North Korea raises the stakes, threatening to escalate tensions on the Korean Peninsula while also complicating the already precarious battlefield conditions in Europe.... Read more

Dimitrios Tsailas (ret) Admiral)
(He has taught for many years, operational planning, strategy, and security, to senior officers at the Supreme Joint War College. He is a member and researcher of the Institute for National and International Security)

Copyright: @ 2024 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 10 November 2024

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The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), proposed at the G20 meeting in New Delhi in 2023, was indeed a significant initiative aimed at creating a "geo-economic corridor" linking India with the Middle East and Europe. However, the concept isn't entirely new, echoing historical precedents like the British East India Company, which similarly used trade routes to shape geopolitics and control vast regions of the world.... Read more

(Mônica H. P. Aguiar. PhD in Political Sciences/International Relations by IUPERJ/UCAM (2016). Executive Coordinator at Núcleo de Estudos Avançados (NEA) of Instituto de Estudos Estratégicos (INEST/ Universidade Federal Fluminense).

Copyright: @ 2024 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 21 October 2024

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In this article, we will examine the paradigms shaping Brazilian foreign policy from the time Brazil became a republic at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. We understand that a country’s foreign policy is influenced by its historical and geopolitical conditions, which leads to a thread of continuity over time, although the specifics of the policy may alter. While not formally specified, it is generally accepted that the central focus of Brazilian foreign policy is to serve national economic development. ... Read more

Prof. Dr. Ilias Iliopoulos had long been a Professor of the Hellenic Naval War College, the Hellenic National Defence College and the American College of Greece (Deree); he currently teaches at the Department of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies of the University of Athens.

Copyright: @ 2024 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 7 October 2024

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The mysterious and most tragic aviation incident of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 of March 8, 2014, in which an airliner carrying 239 people suddenly disappeared during its journey from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, brought attention to security deficiencies at airports and caused a great concern worldwide..... Read more