Abstract Negotiations between India and the EU for a Broad-Based Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA) have proven to be a complex and protracted affair. Despite both parties realising the importance of a trade agreement, neither of them intend to provide any concessions to the other party....

Abstract The Arctic has been conceptualised as a zone of geopolitical competition, an international zone of peace and the dreamlike realm for extractive industries. While states such as Russia and the United States have commenced a militarisation and nuclearisation of the Arctic, other Arctic states...

 Abstract The end of the Cold War saw a shift in power dynamics globally, changing the security dynamics of many regions globally including those in Africa. With the security void left by these great powers in Africa, regional hegemons have played significant roles in promoting regional peace and...

The end of the 20th century is marked by the USSR’s dissolution. Nevertheless, the USSR was partially replaced by the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) which was officially established by the signatures of the heads of Byelorussia, Russia and Ukraine in Belavezha Forest in Belorussia in 1991....

The publication by the American author Thomas K. Murphy, entitled Czechoslovakia Behind the Curtain: Life, Work and Culture in the Communist Era, focuses on the modern period of Czech history between 1948 and the first half of the 1990s. From a global point of view, it was a significant historical epoch...