

On the Occasion of World Refugee Day - An Opinion Piece
Over the last decades, Europeans have been confronted more and more with the issue of asylum seekers coming to Europe. Even in Austria,...


How the Indian Ocean will become the Center Stage for Tomorrow’s Global Politics
In a world dominated by the United States of America, the most focused upon bodies of water are naturally the ones framing the American...


Scotland is coming from the North - But it shouldn’t be a bad thing
The results this morning left me with distinctly mixed feelings. Jubilant over the success of the SNP, yet ultimately worried about the...


Calling Genocide what it is - The 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
The Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan 2015 is a year of many anniversaries – among the ones to ‘celebrate’ are: 70 years after the...


String of Offences Solidifies UKIP’s Dangerous Trajectory in Britain
If you thought that UKIP couldn’t go any further to shock and offend then you were sadly wrong. MEP David Coburn’s recent comment towards...

The danger of drawing red lines…
German Foreign Minister Steinmeier has done it. While visiting Washington D.C. and talking to foreign politics experts at the Centre for...


Facing the edge – Bangladesh in a spiral of violence
Bangladesh – a country known for “made in” tags on clothing, for its emergence in the international sphere in 1971 after bloody...


A match made in heaven? "Revelations" from the Raif Badawi case and a challenge for Wester
Barack Obama with King Abdullah, July 2014 The recent Raif Badawi case reveals not only the brutality of the Saudi Arabian legal system...


Nagorno-Karabakh – A Forgotten Dispute in the Heart of Eurasia
Following the coverage of the war in Georgia and more recently rising debates in economic councils across Europe surrounding the issue of...


UKIP's war on Britain
With the run up to the UK general election the debate over who is best to run the country is in full swing. Already there have been hints...