What to do about the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU)
The EEU is Russia’s latest attempt to unite post-Soviet space under Russian primacy. With full Eurasian integration, a misguided attempt… Read more >
Commitment Versus Convenience: Interpreting Ainu Culture in the Kuril Islands Dispute
To best understand Japan’s official stance on its relationship with the Ainu people, semantics provide a notable clue. The idea… Read more >
The Dire Statelessness of the Rohingyas and the ASEAN Response
Having no other solution, after paying a high price to human smugglers, Rohingyas currently try to reach countries farthest from… Read more >
Where to From Here? Capitalising on the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU)
Despite having occurred almost two decades ago, the political legacy of the collapse of the Soviet Union undeniably lurks in… Read more >
Kurdish Wins…Turkish Worries
Since mid-2012, Kurdish areas in Syria – extending for about 700 miles west from the Turkish-Iraqi-Syrian border – have mostly… Read more >
‘The Arab Spring, 4 years on’ Interview with: Founder of Quest for Middle East Analysis, Dr. Imad Harb
“This period of chaos and uncertainty will be here for a while to come, because of all the things that… Read more >
The past tempts us, the present confuses us and the future frightens us
The title of this blog came from a quote from beloved Science Fiction series, Babylon 5 (Ep. 1, Disk 3,… Read more >
Leveraging New Technology that Combines Digital Forensics and Electronic Discovery for Intelligence Purposes
…there are serious shortcomings associated with the common process of indexing and searching that are generally not very well publicised…. Read more >
Iraq’s fall a matter of time
The US invasion of Iraq (March 2003) determined that country’s future. Its days as a unified state are numbered. In… Read more >
Taming the Russian ‘Wild East’: What’s in it for the Asia-Pacific Region?
With Russia having recently bolstered its political stronghold on the international arena through several displays of diplomatic bravado, the time… Read more >