On the night of Tuesday, May 19th, the President of the Russian Federation arrived in Beijing, China for a remarkable two days state visit (together with President Xi Jinping, the Eastern European leader signed twenty agreements). At the same time, given that the said mission followed that of President Trump merely four days after, the […]

China is leading the invention of non-Western international relations theories. With the expansion of its international influence and the growth of its national potency, it is transforming from the traditional Western experience that shaped most of the international relations discipline worldwide. Beijing recognises the preponderance of developing an independent knowledge production system as it charts […]

As the rest of the world watched closely what was happening in Beijing, on May 14th and 15th, 2026, the annual BRICS Foreign Ministers meeting took place in New Delhi, India. This meeting is held to set the agenda for the annual BRICS Summit. In 2025, it occurred in Brazil, and in 2026, India will host […]

Although the presidents of two of the world’s biggest economies have been in regular communication for some time now including when they physically met in Busan, South Korea last year, President Donald Trump’s recent visit to Beijing (May 14-15) was at a whole other level if for no other reason because it was the first […]

It is 2022. France makes military withdrawals from one West African country to another. This expulsion of a former colonial power is against its terms. First, Mali, then Burkina Faso, Niger, and Chad. France faced a cascading termination of military agreements in all. Before Paris could catch its breath, the Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, […]

Global perceptions of the U.S. have deteriorated for a second consecutive year and are now worse than views of Russia, an annual study on ​democracy published on Friday showed, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies continue ‌to severely strain the NATO alliance. The Denmark-based Alliance of Democracies Foundation, which commissioned the survey, said the U.S. […]