05.06.2025
Europe, worrying about the future, between the US withdrawing from NATO and Russian re-assertion have had to really think about what it had to do for the security of Europe. The US had a point when evaluating the cost of NATO over the years and the disproportionate amount which they had to pay compared with the European contribution. European countries, France and Germany to the fore, and Britain, have taken up the matter seriously and Europe is meeting to discuss security and defence requirements...
03.06.2025
Dragan Čović and HDZ have no legitimate grounds to block BiH’s path to the EU by disregarding the new parliamentary majority and shielding Milorad Dodik and the SNSD. The new majority would allow BiH’s EU integration process to be unblocked and pave the way for a range of reforms. A final ruling by the Court of BiH on Dodik’s appeal is expected soon. If the first-instance verdict is upheld, he will be barred from political activity, and the CEC is expected to revoke his mandate as President of RS.
28.05.2025
EU is gone or at least that it will be gone in the foreseeable future, we can only ask ourselves what is next for us. Is it a return to the dark past of the 1990s or an even more terrifying return to the nineteenth century when the borders of the great empires will once again expand in the Balkans and the spears of discord will once again be broken here, and we all serve them only as a coin for change. At the moment this text is being written, May 28, we can definitely say: Europe, thank you for nothing.
26.05.2025
In the context of ongoing global transformations — which have coincided with the inauguration of the new US administration under Donald Trump — it would be reasonable to examine the recent wave of accelerated developments: the expansion of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation to the borders of the European Union via Belarus’s accession; the UK–Ukraine agreement; the US–Armenia strategic partnership; the Russia–Iran agreement of 17 January 2025; and the China–Iran partnership agreement signed in 2021.
22.05.2025
The current mainstream European and Japanese political leaders and policy elites have been accustomed and, probably, obsessed to adhere to the liberal international order. Should Europe and Japan dare to restore the status quo ante, they would exhaust their power capacity and fail to become constitutive plays of a next multipolar system. This means that such a system would consist of four great powers--the United States, China, Russia, and perhaps, India.
12.05.2025
As the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in peacebuilding grows, so too does the need to address the fundamental biases embedded within the data that drive AI systems. Currently, over 90% of AI training datasets are sourced from Europe and North America, yet the majority of global conflicts occur outside these regions. This disparity creates a critical challenge: AI systems trained on data that reflects the Global North often fail to account for the realities of conflict in the Global South.
08.05.2025
The upcoming elections are widely regarded as a ‘last chance,’ serving as a critical test for democracy and institutional reform. Albania’s EU integration process has entered a delicate phase, with official Brussels now expecting tangible results rather than declarative statements. Albanians are increasingly weary of Edi Rama and the Socialist Party, and many have lost faith in the political elite, demanding meaningful change across all areas of public life.
02.05.2025
BiH’s future lies in NATO membership, as the most effective response to all expansionist agendas in the region, whether Greater Serbian, Croatian, Albanian, Hungarian, or Bulgarian. Each of these projects has been directed against BiH. The two US-sponsored agreements safeguard the integrity of the country, a status that is not expected to change. Any state contemplating territorial expansion should reflect on the fate of Slobodan Milošević and Franjo Tuđman, and the failure of their policies in BiH.
28.04.2025
Necessary factual information that fuels public perception to accurately reflect the will of the people in elections is being threatened like never before. We're facing wave after wave of tsunamis of AI and human-generated disinformation. Only by adopting innovative approaches that acknowledge basic human motivations can we hope to effectively combat this existential threat to democracy.
25.04.2025
The larger context of Algayerova’s key-note remarks aligns closely with the theme of the OSCE’s SHDM: civil society’s indispensable role in the protection and promotion of international human rights law. Free media is, after all, one of civil society’s most potent tools. It gives voice to the marginalized, shines light in dark places, and forces accountability on systems that would otherwise operate in secrecy. Without it, the very scaffolding of human rights protection begins to falter.
23.04.2025
Thus, 20 years later, the largest planetary security mechanism - the OSCE, has shown persistence in dealing with some aspects of demography; eg. trafficking as segment of migrations. One may say; a peripheral and nomadic, fragmented and sporadic, and decoupling fashion of addressing the problem will never bring betterment. Situation of today is a pure consequences of the way we then formulated our challenges, determined our conclusions, and our overall course of action. We still have our chance.
18.04.2025
What is at stake is not merely the next government or presidency, but the very capacity of Romanian society to reconstruct the meaning of democracy beyond its formal shell. This will require lucidity, civic commitment, a refusal of resignation, and, above all, the courage to say the emperor has no clothes – even when the stage is lavish and the applause appears unanimous.
