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Supporters of Georgia's opposition parties hold a rally to protest against the government's decision to suspend talks on joining the European Union, outside the parliament building in Tbilisi, Georgia December 7, 2024. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze

Four scenarios for the protests in Georgia

With clashes intensifying, Georgia appears to be in a pre-revolutionary state

Luke Coffey 12 December 2024
Protesters brandishing a European Union flag brace as they are sprayed by a water cannon during clashes with riot police near the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi on March 7, 2023. AFP

Internal divisions in Georgia threaten its European dream

Georgia has never been so close to its historic drive to re-integrate into the West. It could gain EU membership, yet a government preoccupied with its own grip on power jeapordises this dream.

Vicken Cheterian 25 July 2023
A handout photo made available by the Russian Defence Ministry press service shows Russian peacekeepers attending a welcome ceremony upon returning from a mission in Kazakhstan on the military base in Ivanovo, Russia, 15 January 2022. RUSSIAN FEDERATION (EPA Photos)

Kazakhstan’s “Bloody January” and its Aftermath

Kazakhstan has just weathered a major crisis sparked by skyrocketing fuel prices. Dissent is rare in Kazakhstan as a result of the fact that it is one of the least free countries in Central Asia run…

Maia Otarashvili 04 February 2022
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Georgian Defense Minister Dzhuansher Burchuladze. Photo Credit: Reuters

US Strategies with Frontline States To Counter Russian Influence

This week, the U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin traveled to Europe to attend the NATO Defense Ministerial in Brussels. Ahead of the event Secretary Austin visited Georgia, Ukraine, and Romania…

Maia Otarashvili 22 October 2021
A member of an election commission helps to a woman to cast her ballot at a polling station during national municipal elections in Tbilisi, Georgia, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. Photo Credit: AP

Georgia’s Troubles Benefit Russia in South Caucasus

On October 2, Georgia held the first round of its municipal elections in an exceptionally heated environment. Continued political crises, tensions with western allies, and a raging pandemic served as…

Maia Otarashvili 09 October 2021
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Trump-Xi meeting is about much more than trade

22 October 2025

US and Chinese leaders have locked themselves into a downward spiral that goes far beyond tariffs, exports, and rare earths. This is about the future and who controls it.

Shirley Ze Yu
Governor of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, delivers his speech at the opening of the ninth edition of the Future Investment Initiative (FII), in Riyadh, 28 October 2025. Reuters
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Investing in people and AI: Saudi Arabia’s vision for a new Middle East

29 October 2025

Now in its ninth edition, Riyadh's Future Investment Initiative has transformed from an investment forum into a geo-economic platform redefining how nations link peace, progress, and technology

Omar Harkous
People walk amid the destruction in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on October 11, 2025, a day after a ceasefire took effect. AFP
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Gaza's partition: Palestinian peril dressed up as pragmatism

26 October 2025

Presented as post-war stabilisation, an experiment in controlled fragmentation appears to be underway, with diplomacy, security, and commerce converging to cement a new geopolitical order

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy
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West Bank annexation could upend the region

24 October 2025

Jordan's 1994 peace treaty with Israel remains a cornerstone of regional stability. It has survived two intifadas and recurrent Gaza conflicts, but annexation would push it to the brink

Alice Gower
Secretary of State Marco Rubio stands with Rwanda's FM Olivier Nduhungirehe and Democratic Republic of Congo's FM Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, after signing a peace agreement in Washington on June 27, 2025. AP / Mark Schiefelbein
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The flaw in America's Africa policy

27 October 2025

With China, Türkiye, the Gulf states, and Russia offering tangible investment and influence in Africa, the US's reliance on facilitation and hollow declarations has reduced it to a mere observer

Sergey Eledinov

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