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For better security, EU needs more unity and a global strategy
THE EUROPEAN Union plans to adopt a “Global Strategy” for its foreign and security policies (EGS) at its June 22 summit. The document is the result of years of reflection on the increasing complexity...
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Italian intelligence faces new challenges in Libya and Iraq
WHEN Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi took office in 2014, he had to appoint an undersecretary for intelligence. Marco Minniti, already in that position during the previous administration, was sworn...
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China cautiously engages with the Middle East to protect its interests
BEIJING’S increasing involvement in the Middle East has important economic, diplomatic, and military implications for the region, China and the world. While beefing up its presence in the Middle East...
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Oil-dependent Iraq weighs production freeze
IRAQ is the second largest producer of oil in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) after Saudi Arabia and was the second biggest contributor to the rise in global oil supplies in...
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Turkey: internally troubled, unpredictable partner
AS TURKEY’s unstable internal politics have lurched toward repression, its foreign policy appears to have lost direction. The escalating war with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has pushed...
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The West needs a strategy as Islamic conflict zone widens
AS WAR threatens to engulf a region stretching from Iraq to Sub-Saharan Africa, the United States, Europe and their allies must come up with a coordinated strategy for intervening. In any possible...
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