Tag: International Cooperation
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Discussing Consultancy in a Shifting Landscape
Main Question: How can businesses navigate an increasingly fragmented and uncertain geopolitical landscape? Argument: Companies must integrate geopolitical analysis into their core business strategy rather than treating it as an external factor. Conclusion: As global dynamics grow more complex, the demand for experts who can translate political trends into strategic business decisions will continue to…
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Funding Freeze
Executive Order: “Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid”; who could oppose the need to eliminate abuses of the system? Domestically, the freeze on spending carries tangible risks for essential social programmes, threatening services that many communities rely on. Internationally, it also fuels uncertainty: allies and partners are left wondering whether the country will remain…
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Reconciling Cambodia and Thailand
Have international legal regimes been effective in mediating the border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia? While each side pursues different international legal mechanisms, their differing incentives, goals, and national memories interfere with the peace process. In order to resolve the border conflict, the countries need to first reconcile their domestic politics and their mutual desire…
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MSC 2026: Europe under destruction?
The 62nd Munich Security Conference highlighted growing European responsibility, with stronger trilateral cooperation through the Weimar Triangle and rising defense initiatives, while acknowledging industrial and structural limits. Ultimately, Europe is gradually assuming strategic autonomy, adapting to modern hybrid threats, and working to safeguard peace and democratic values.
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MSC 2026: Reconfiguring South Caucasus Security
How is the South Caucasus reshaping itself in a new geopolitical environment? Amid shifting power dynamics, evolving trade routes and regional realignments the region is moving from geopolitical periphery to strategic corridor. At MSC 2026, discussions confirmed that connectivity has become the decisive factor in geopolitical weight and long-term security.
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On Exile And Expertise:
How can the Syrian diaspora be effectively mobilised to support post-Assad reconstruction without repeating past pitfalls? Diaspora engagement offers valuable skills and social capital, but externally imposed approaches risk elite capture and legitimacy backlash. A demand-driven, locally anchored, transparent platform enables diaspora contributions while avoiding instrumentalisation, working towards inclusive and effective reconstruction.
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NextGen Europe Should Embrace 360º Resilience
– Europe faces many threats: American aggrandisement, Chinese competition, Russian revanchism. – Europe’s young leaders currently emerging from Generation Z — those born roughly between 1995 and 2010, aged between 16 and 30 today — have the qualities that can Make Europe Great Again. – To do that, they should embrace the ambition of 360º…
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Davos Diaries
what was this years world economic forum about? what was Epis’s impression and what are our future ambitions?
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Beyond Tokenism
– Digital Security and Risk Awareness – Mental Resilience for Effective Leadership – Healthcare Geopolitics and Political Adaptations
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The African Sky
Question: How can Africa maintain strategic autonomy while navigating the intensifying U.S.-China “space race”? Argument: Africa’s “space for development” model leverages international partnerships not for prestige, but as essential tools for data sovereignty and socioeconomic transformation. Conclusion: To avoid terrestrial patterns of exclusion, African states must foster domestic investment and benefit-sharing to ensure space remains…