Diplomatic Studies Programme forum
Vahid Nick Pay and Elemchi Nwosu, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2020.1762358 Abstract: This paper seeks to explore the political implications of China’s economic relationship with Africa using the case study of Sino-Nigerian economic … Read More
By Harry Gray Calvo and Vahid Nick Pay Russian Politics, Brill 5 (2020) 105-130; doi:10.30965/24518921-00501005 International interest in the Arctic is heating up along with the planet’s atmosphere and the … Read More
Abstract Constitutionalism has more than a century of history in the Muslim world. More recently, Iran and Iraq, two countries with populations comprised of Shi’a majorities with a strong presence … Read More
Journal of Social Sciences DOI: 10.25079/ukhjss.v1n1y2017.pp34-45 This study is aimed at analyzing aspects of individual rights and liberties in theocratic systems by examining the Iranian Constitution as a case study. … Read More
Why the Destruction of Kawa’s Statue in Afrin Matters – Polity As Turkish troops and their jihadist proxies in the Free Syrian Army (FSA) declare the fall of the Kurdish … Read More
DOI: 10.25079/ukhjss.v1n1y2017 Abstract This article aims at providing an alternative view to the prevailing narratives on the timing, the underpinning reasons and actual outcomes of the Kurdistan independence referendum held … Read More
The news from Iraq has been grim of late, nonetheless in light of the recent success of the Kurdish forces over the fundamentalists of the Islamic State (IS) the looming … Read More
Ethical challenges of keeping the poor and the refugees out of one’s own lawn: from donating the unsold supermarkets’ food to Europe’s pressing question of illegal immigration! The question of … Read More
Pope Francis’s recent endorsement of the Big-Bang Theory and the affirmation that “God is not a magician with a magic wand” could well sign the transformation of the magic wand into a … Read More
As Western diplomacy in the Middle East appears to be doomed to a vicious circle of blunders for over a century, the upcoming Kurdistan’s consultative referendum on independence could provide … Read More
Texts, Maison Burganov, Moscow, ISSN: 2294-8902no. 1 (2017): 97-100 Abstract Most observers have interpreted the Brexit and the stunning election of Donald Trump to the White House as yet another sign … Read More
The Iranian elections are planned for this Friday to elect a 290 member parliament as well as the powerful Assembly of Experts in charge of substituting the Leader in case … Read More
Homegrown Terrorism a Republican Failure – Polity “Era of danger (to the republic) ends, era of difficulties starts” optimistically proclaimed the ideologues of the French Republic. Nonetheless recent Paris terrorist … Read More
After years of open hostility and even threats of actual confrontations, the West and Iran seem to have embarked on a new path of dialogue and reconciliation which above all … Read More
Why we are NOT Charlie Hebdo! – Polity In the wake of the deadliest attack on French soil for decades, all political parties and religious and secular activists seem to … Read More
