It all started with Cyprus announcing its’ intentions to start off shore drilling for natural gas. The drilling was about to take place on the island’s northern borders to Turkey, in an area which is in Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), totally under its’ jurisdiction. However the flame between the two countries ignited in 2009, […]
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March 5, 2012
On February 22, the agreement between Hamas and Fatah to form an interim unity government which will lead the Palestinians to elections in the forthcoming months caught many by surprise. The Qatari mediation played a major role in an effort to return to the status quo ante in Palestine prior to the 2006 elections. The […]
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Mainstream International Relations (IR) thinking (see Realism, Liberalism) holds that the national interest drives states to act the way they do on the international stage. This post-hoc rationalising to explain policy outcomes works successfully enough to be employed by the majority of policy-makers, academics, and analysts to inform their audiences. However, what they are often […]
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