EDITORIAL

Brief Q & A

Dr. A. T. Symeonidis
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 21 November 2020

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

As the world reels under the raging pandemic, governments face critical questions of stability and, even, survival. National security is one of these questions and carries particular primacy. What are the key ingredients of trying to respond to this challenge?

First off, we need to understand that Covid-19 won’t go away for quite some time. There are conflicting theories on the persistence of the pandemic; even with an effective vaccine coming online imminently (first half of 2021) administrative, organizational, storage, and supply problems will consume months of preparing for universal vaccination. In the meantime, Covid-19 will continue to hammer our societies, keep filling graveyards, and overpower health systems. And the pandemic has already caused such enormous economic and social dislocation that many lesser-endowed states are on the brink of collapse. .. 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: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 14 November 2020

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

Europe is challenged by a “double threat” made up of a new wave of “lone wolf” Islamist terror attacks and the Covid-19 pandemic. French President Emmanuel Macron hosted an online summit a week after Kujtim Fejzulai a convicted ISIS supporter killed four people in a shooting rampage in the heart of Vienna, following last month's attacks in France on a church in the city of Nice and the beheading of a teacher in a Paris suburb two weeks before that. ... Read more

Dr. Tassos Symeonidis
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 8 November 2020

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

The recent Islamist outrages in France and Austria have again pushed the bitter crisis of Islamofascism to the fore. In the wake of the gruesome beheading of history teacher Samuel Paty by a Chechen terrorist, President Macron promised to mobilize France against “Islamist separatism”—and a similar message came from Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurtz after the Islamist gunman rampage in Vienna. ..Read more

Robert Ellis
(Member of the advisory board at Vocal Europe in Brussels)

Copyright: https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/opinion/turkey-intensifies-its-stranglehold-on-cyprus/

Reposted at RIEAS web site on 29 October 2020

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

For those who have worked for and believe in the reunification of the troubled island of Cyprus, the outcome of Sunday’s presidential election in the TRNC (Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus) is a major setback. The TRNC is itself a fabrication, a self-declared republic, to justify what in fact is Turkey’s 82nd province. Read more

Criminal Revisionism and Imminent War

Q&A

Dr. Tassos Symeonidis
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 17 October 2020

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

Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war)
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Erdogan’s increasingly strident rhetoric suggests Turkey is well under way in her effort to upend the Lausanne Treaty and instigate a neo-Ottoman military push to expand her territory at the expense of Greece and Cyprus. Are we truly faced with a Turkish-instigated regional war?. ... Read more

Special Strategic Report

Vasileios Valasakis
(Chairman of a financial Institution in the United Kingdom and holds an MA from Georgetown University (USA) in International Relations and National Security. He has also earned a Certificate in Terrorism and Counterterrorism from the University of St Andrews, UK)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 10 October 2020

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

As the German deep State is laying the groundwork to support the Federal Government’s decision, whenever this is taken, to break out of the country’s membership in the EU, a series of foreign affairs policies also direct Germany towards setting it free from the Atlantic leash. When set free, Germany will be unfastened able to run her own national policies. Then, and only then, she will overtly assist Turkey’s pursuit of Social Darwinist policies directed at the States she feels surrounded by. ... Read more