EDITORIAL

Shaul Shay

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

Copyright: @ 2022 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 23 December 2022

Defense and military ties between Algiers and Moscow go back decades, since the Soviet Union and Algeria's armed forces are almost entirely equipped with Soviet – Russian made weapons and military systems.

Algerian Parliamentary Vice Speaker Bouteldja Allel said in November 2022 that Algeria is a “strategic ally” and “friend partner” of Russia and the relations between the two countries have been and will continue to be strategic for many decades.[ Algeria, Russia Kick Off Military Exercises Near Border with Morocco, Asharq Al-Awsat, November 17, 2022.

Algeria is one of Russia's most important military allies in Africa and it's also the largest customer of Russian weapons on the continent and among the top three buyers of Russian arms behind China and India... Read more

By now it must be apparent that Turkey has joined forces with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Iran’s Ebrahim Raisi, China’s Xi Jinping and Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman.

By ROBERT ELLIS

Copyright @ 2022 https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-724530

Both the Biden administration and the GOP might be lulled into believing that Turkey under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could be the honest broker they need to act as go-between between the United States and Russia. But this is not the case.

By now it must be apparent that Turkey has joined forces with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Iran’s Ebrahim Raisi, China’s Xi Jinping and Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman.

When the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in 2002, it presented itself as moderate, Westward-looking and neoliberal, and the US and the European Union were taken in. As then-secretary of state Condoleezza Rice gushed, the AKP was “a government dedicated to pulling Turkey West toward Europe.”... Read more

Raagini Shekher Sharma
(RIEAS Senior Analyst)

Copyright: @ 2022 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 11 December 2022

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 Relevance

The Group of Twenty (G20) was formed in 1999 in the wake of the economic meltdown in South East Asia that shook the economy of the world with a view to unite the world’s largest established and emerging economies and ensure global financial and economic stability. The aim was to create a global ecosystem that would support equitable growth and development. The most powerful economies in the world, both developed and emerging, were brought together for this common cause. In the third summit in 2009 held in Pittsburgh, the leaders designated the G20 as the “premier forum for international economic cooperation.”.. 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: @ 2022 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 21 November 2022

While the world's attention is focused on the Iranian-made drone attacks conducted by Russia against infrastructure and energy targets in Ukraine, the Houthis, Iran's allies, are conducting attacks against energy targets in Yemen. The drone strikes against energy targets in both Ukraine and Yemen began in October 2022.

The drones supplied by Iran to its ally Russia, and the Houthi rebels in Yemen are wreaking havoc, damaging critical energy infrastructures and jeopardizing the world's energy security.

Since October 2022, the Iran-backed Houthis launched 3 drone attacks on oil terminals in Hadramout and Shabwa in an effort to halt tankers from delivering the nation’s oil exports from the government-controlled territories to the global market.... Read more

Niles Webb
(Historian based in UK)

Copyright: @ 2022 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 9 November 2022

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 UK’s 2016 decision to leave the European Union (EU) is often cited alongside the election of Donald Trump as US President as evidence that the rules-based international order is in crisis. G. John Ikenberry, a leading liberal internationalist, writes that ‘[t]he two great powers that have done the most to give the modern international order a liberal character … seem to be pulling back from this leadership’ with Britain leaving the EU, ‘the silent bulwark of the Western liberal order’ and Trump’s promise to put ‘America First’ ... Read more

Competing and winning against peer or near-peer adversaries begins with intelligence gathering.

By Lt. Gen. Susan S. LAWRENCE, USA (ret)

Copyright @ 2022 https://www.afcea.org/signal-media/intelligence/presidents-commentary-boosting-osint-use-smart-move
Posted at RIEAS web site at 1 November 2022

Competing and winning against peer or near-peer adversaries begins with intelligence gathering, often in the form of open-source information, or OSINT. Every form of intelligence is vital to national security and defense, but the explosion of publicly available information and the information warfare efforts between Russia and Ukraine has placed OSINT center stage. ... Read more