Strategy & Policy

26

Jul

Belarus, China, Eurasia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia

The Game of Eurasia

BY: Daniel Ranjbar PEJOURNAL - The Eurasian Economic Union is a regional treaty signed in 2014 by the leaders of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus. A year later, in 2015, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan joined. The Eurasian Economic Union officially started its work on January 1, 2015. Eurasian countries now have an area of ​​20 million square kilometers and a population of more than 183 million, which is 5.2% of the world's population. On the day of the agreement, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced: “Today we have created a powerful and attractive economic growth center, a regional market that connects more than…

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25

Jul

Energy, Europe, gas, GERMANY, Nord Stream 2, Russia, USA

The Nord Stream 2 Russia-to-Germany pipeline; Increasing Tension Between the U.S. and EU

PEJOURNAL - Although the Nord Stream 2 Russia-to-Germany pipeline is 94 percent complete but Washington wants to keep it that way. A hulking Russian pipe-laying vessel called the Akademik Cherskiy can be seen off Germany’s Baltic coast these days,marine tracking sites say, apparentlywaiting for the chance to complete the final stretches of a massive undersea pipeline that will carry natural gas directly to Germany from Russia. The Trump administration, though, is trying to keep the pipeline, known as Nord Stream 2, on ice. Last week, the State Department moved to potentially impose economic penalties on investors and other business participants…

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25

Jul

agreement, Eli Vered Hazan, inter-party, Israel, Likud party, María Corina Machado, Netanyahu, VENEZUELA, Vente Venezuela

Venezuela opposition party signed a cooperation agreement with Israel’s Likud party

PEJOURNAL - An opposition party, called Vente Venezuela,through its leader, María Corina Machado, signed a cooperation agreement with Israel's Likud party, which is in government through Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Vente Venezuela described this decision as "a historic and very important step". In the document, signed by Eli Vered Hazan, representing the Likud Foreign Relations Division, and by María Corina, on behalf of Vente Venezuela, both parties pledge to strengthen relations between the peoples of Israel and Venezuela. The political organizations also announced that the cooperation included "political, ideological and social issues, as well as making progress on issues related…

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24

Jul

Belt and Road Initiative, China, debt-trap, One Belt One Road

China’s debt-trap tactics: Same script, different cast

BY: Chaitra Arjunpuri PEJOURNAL - Ever wondered why India’s measure to ban China related apps and cancellation of Chinese contracts given for infrastructure development is praised and backed by other countries? China’s lending and investment policies, often disguised as help, in other countries have always resulted in “hidden debt” trap. This trap has pushed the economies of the borrowing countries to a worse than expected slowdown, one of the many problems associated with it. Over the past 20 plus years, China has become a major global lender, with outstanding claims exceeding over 5% of global GDP. It has given many…

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24

Jul

Egypt, Ethiopia, Nile River, pejournal, Political Economy Journal, Renaissance Dam

The Ethiopia and Egypt Water Dispute: How likely are war threats to materialize?

BY: Begona Arechalde PEJOURNAL - Last week, Ethiopia and Egypt, two countries nourished by the waters of the Nile River, again exchanged threats of military intervention regarding the filling of the $4.5 billion hydroelectric dam that Ethiopia is building in the east of the country. The dam, known as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and Africa’s largest, is becoming a contemporary Rubicon that, if crossed, could irreparably harm the relationship between these two countries. On Tuesday, July 21, a new round of online negotiations managed to reduce tensions, putting the cooperation option back on the table. The Grand Renaissance…

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23

Jul

Erdogan, Libya, Middle East, NATO, Syria, Turkey, Yemen

Turkey; Returning of Europe’s headache

BY: Damir Nazarov Turkey expands the borders of intervention throughout the Middle East despite the abundance of economic problems and the prospect of being drawn into a series of large-scale conflicts, under the slogan of "protecting democracy" . In almost every hot spot in the region, the Turks built military bases or sent officers to train local AK Parti loyalists. Ankara imposes and justifies its occupation of Muslim countries by protecting local " democratic forces "(North-Western Syria, Libya), fighting "terrorism "(Northern Syria and Iraq), "helping allies "(Qatar, Somalia, Yemen) and "cooperation for economic purposes" (Sudan, Djibouti)*. The question arises, where…

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23

Jul

Al-Kadhimi, Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran, Iraq, Strategic relations, Supreme Leader of Iran

Al-Kadhimi’s visit to Iran paving the way for a leap in strategic relations

PEJOURNAL - Al-Kadhimi's visit to Tehran, according to the plans made, gained special dimensions through media, and thwarted the desperate attempt of the enemies to induce an inappropriate political atmosphere between two countries. Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, who is in Iran on his first foreign trip as head of a high-level political, economic and security delegation, met with the Supreme Leader and other high-ranking officials of Iran. This trip, was given special attention by domestic and international media due to the common interests between Tehran and Baghdad in the political, cultural, economic and regional fields; At the same time,…

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22

Jul

Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs, foreign policy, George W. Bush, HENRY KISSINGER, Jimmy Carter, Kissinger, Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Stanley Hoffmann, U.S. foreign policy, Zbigniew Brzeziński

The National Interest: The Case for Kissinger

PEJOURNAL - HENRY KISSINGER, who recently turned ninety-seven, is America’s most celebrated living statesman. None of his successors has come close to matching the extraordinary blend of acclaim and notoriety, admiration and criticism that he attracted as national security adviser and secretary of state to Richard M. Nixon and secretary of state to Gerald Ford. The British Foreign Office referred to him at the time as “the Wizard of the Western World'” and Playboy Bunnies voted him the man they would prefer to date in 1972—no small accomplishments for an expert on the Congress of Vienna who spent much of…

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20

Jul

Brazil, BRICS, Chabahar, China, India, Iran, LNG, Oil, pejournal, Political Economy Journal, Russia, South Africa

Political Economy Journal: BRICS; Risk or Opportunity

BY: Daniel Ranjbar The BRICS countries flags PEJOURNAL - The BRICS countries are trying to get other countries that are almost in a similar situation to join the group in order to achieve their collective goals with more power. The group currently covers more than 40% of the world's population, including Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. But one of the main problems of the BRICS countries in expanding relations and strengthening their position is the small number of members and the geographical distance of the member countries of this group. The BRICS group symbolizes the imbalance created by…

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20

Jul

Abu Dhabi, Corona virus, Israel, Mohammad Benzayed, Mossad, Netanyahu, Pooya Mirzaei, Shabak, Tel Aviv, The UAE, Zionist regime

The UAE and the Israel; Two decades of cooperation

PEJOURNAL - The series of events and developments in the last two decades in the UAE show that this government has sought to normalize relations with the Israeli regime and during this time has tried to involve its allies in this field. The UAE did not even wait for the Zionist regime to agree to the Arab leaders' peace plan at the Beirut summit, and began its relations with the regime in this direction, which accelerated with the beginning of the coronation of "Mohammad Benzayed". The first official visit of Zionist officials to the UAE took place in 2003, when…

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