EDITORIAL

Dr. Glen Segell
(Ezri Center for Iran and Gulf States Research, University of Haifa, Israel)

Copyright: @ 2021 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 2 September 2021

Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Re-search Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS)

Introduction

It’s the same old story even though there are three new leaders, President Biden in the United States of America, Prime Minister Bennet in Israel and President Ebrahim Raisi in Iran. Why is it the same old story? The facts remain the same, the threat is that Iran is about to become a nuclear state very shortly, yet it is not actually becoming one. We have been hearing about this for at least 15 years if not 30. The story is that the Iranian’s are threatening. And it’s just that, a threat and no more. There are no nuclear weapons. That’s okay with everyone including the Iranians because this is their version of Nuclear Deterrence. ..Read more

Alexander Drivas
(Strategic Analyst, PhD Cand, Panteion University, Greece)

Copyright: @ 2021 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 29 August 2021

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The Three Seas Initiative and its purposes

The Three Seas Initiative (or 3SI) is a newborn regional platform of cooperation. Poland and Croatia were the main builders of that platform, with the support and blessings of the USA. The Three Seas Initiative was funded in 2016 and its goal is to promote cooperation among 12 European States. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Austria, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria seek integration and growth among them. The geopolitical value behind the cooperation is obvious. To cut the long story short, the main reason of the cooperation among the 12 states is to connect the Baltic Sea with the Black Sea and the Adriatic Sea. Most of them are post-Communist regimes that followed the Euro-Atlantic pillars after the collapse of the USSR. The Chinese economic expansion combined with the European financial crisis and the renaissance of Russian influence in Moscow's backyard (Eastern Europe & The Balkans) raised the need of the poor states to boost their economic growth by deterring the Russian influence... Read more

Raagini Sharma
(RIEAS Senior Analyst)

Copyright: @ 2021 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 22 August 2021

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Introduction

To write about the cultural heritage a country needs internal political stability, economic cooperation at the regional and global level, and a certain foothold in the international organizations and forums where it can voice its opinions and is taken seriously to put forth its issues. Nations also aspire to be recognised for their endeavours to develop holistically taking into consideration the economic and political stability, human resource and infrastructure development, education and employment opportunities and welfare of its people etc.... Read more

Raagini Sharma
(RIEAS Senior Analyst)

Copyright: @ 2021 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 9 August 2021

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1. Abstract

To what extent do we understand the term ethnicity? Why few of the ethnic conflicts become a theatre of genocidal warfare? Who are the people engaged in ethnic conflicts and why do they do it? Why ethnic conflicts cause brutal violence in a state? Why the people belonging to ethnic groups support the cause of violence? Why is it becoming difficult for the international organizations and the Non-Governmental Organizations to settle ethnic conflicts which are causing havoc at the regional level with repercussions at the global level? These are a few of the burning issues.... Read more

John M Nomikos, Associate Professor at the Western University Athens and Director at the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS) delivered a speech on Eastern Mediterranean and Transatlantic Relations:

A Greek Perspective at the 13th World Hellenic Inter-Parliamentary Association (WHIA) in the Greek Parliament, 29 July 2021.
The speech was attended by WHIA members from Albania, Canada, France, Germany, Jordan, Kenya, Sweden, USA, and Australia.

Copyright: @ 2021 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 3 August 2021

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The change of guard at the White House after November 2020 has inaugurated a new era in transatlantic relations. President Biden announced that “America is back” and promised expanded cooperation between Washington and its NATO allies on a host of strategic issues of common interest such as:

Intelligence collaboration
Transatlantic homeland security
Risk assessment
Trade relations
Human rights, and
The environment

Specific future opportunities include a reappraisal of economic relations with the view of expanding transatlantic trade; a broad reassessment of common security and defense; combating the pandemic and expanding vaccination ..... Read more

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

Copyright: @ 2021 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 3 August 2021

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Two crew members, a Briton and a Romanian were killed when an Israeli-managed petroleum product tanker came under drone attack on July 29, 2021, off the coast of Oman. The same day a hostile attempt by the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen to attack a Saudi commercial vessel in the Red Sea with a drone has been thwarted.
Israel's prime minister, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab directly blamed Iran for the drone attack on the oil tanker off the coast of Oman that killed two people as Tehran denied being involved in the assault. ... Read more