This paper delves into details of the arguments surrounding the nomenclature “Sea of Japan” which has been a source of contention between Japan, South Korea, and North Korea. Beginning with analyzing the early origins of the nomenclature, the paper includes studying various surveys of global a...;

BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) emerged as a significant platform with the ambition of becoming the voice of rising powers in the global system, aiming in particular to highlight the demands of the Global South. However, it is evident that BRICS is still not a fully institutio...;

Since 2000, when Vladimir Putin came to power as President of Russia, Moscow has begun to use a complex ecosystem of information, disinformation and misinformation as a global tool that it has placed at the centre of its national security strategy. This ecosystem played an important role in helping ...;

Russia backed separatists fighting against the Ukrainian army in the war that started in 2014 and annexed Crimea from Ukraine. On 24 February 2022, Russia escalated this war and invaded Ukraine. This was the most devastating attack on a European country since World War II. Türkiye as a neighbouring ...;

In his interview to Tucker Carlson, Vladimir Putin talked a lot about “historical rights“ of Russia to control what he perceives as a buffer zone between Russia and the West. But what is simply a territory for Moscow, is a social and political reality for the states who exist there and have their ow...;

Although after the war ends, Ukraine will most certainly keep its status of an independent state, the final quality of its statehood and nationhood is undefined. Russia’s ongoing destruction of Ukraine has already changed its demographic, economic and social structure with the most severe long-term ...;

Although during the Russian war in Ukraine, Belarus may be qualified as a Russian proxy, paradoxically, it can be as well perceived as a country struggling to save the rest of its independence from Moscow. ;

The physical elimination of Evgeni Prigozhin and the commandment of the Wagner Group opens the question of the further use of mercenaries, not only in Ukraine but in wider regional context. Designed as a non-conventional solution of ‘delicate’ tasks abroad, Wagner and its leader turned into a ‘delic...;