23 October 2019 Image credit: hungarytoday Increasing Chinese influence in Europe has been a growing source of anxiety in Brussels in recent years. This paper seeks to better understand these exacerbated fears through the case of the Budapest-Belgrade railway link refurbishment. The project is part of the 17+1 Cooperation and the Belt and Road
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30 August 2019 Image credit: CFR In recent years, Japan has resorted to reinterpreting its Constitution to respond to global trends and its security dilemma. The rate with which Japan is doing this has raised alarms over the possibility that it will gradually defer from this practice to ultimately revise its Constitution under bogus claims
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In 2018, EIAS in cooperation with the Taipei Representative Office in the European Union, renewed a 2014 EIAS report “Taiwanese Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) into the European Union.” Split into both a quantitative and qualitative survey, this report unveils how the investment relationship between the EU and Taiwan remains underexploited, with both parties standing
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While officially maintaining a democratic framework, Cambodia has faced months of political crisis since local elections were held in June 2017, resulting in a narrow victory for the governing Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and important gains for the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). The Supreme Court dissolved the only opposition party, the CNRP, and
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This paper examines the prospects for the diversification and modernization of Bhutan’s economy, focusing in particular on the private sector, the IT/ICT sector, digital connectivity, the financial sector, and the strategies employed to reach this goal. At the same time, this development is juxtaposed with preserving the country’s unique cultural heritage and environmental sustainability, which
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When discussing disability rights it is imperative to tackle areas in which substantial advancements can be made. The discussion of inclusive education for people with disabilities is an important one with ripple effects all throughout society. Both China and the European Union (EU) have taken on the topic of disability rights and accelerated their engagement
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As one of the components of the EU–China relations, the EU–China energy relationship has experienced an evolution of institutionalization for over two decades. Now, an EU–China energy cooperation institutional framework has been constructed. These institutions have been playing a significant role in helping EU–China energy cooperation by promoting bilateral dialogues and fostering cooperation projects. However,
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This paper seeks to examine the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy for Central Asia, utilizing a combination of primary and secondary sources to build an accurate picture of the European strategy in this fundamental area for global order. The study will provide a detailed analysis of the EU pivot to the region between the
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When the ‘Heartland’ theory was first published in 1904, it soon became a milestone for geopolitics. Due to the current events, Mackinder’s paradigm seems to have concrete relevance within the international scenario today. The geographical position of Central Asia as the crossroads of the Eurasian continent together with the abundance of important energy resources has increased the strategic
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Europe has been at the forefront of labour mobility since 1957, when it enshrined the principle of free movement of workers in the treaty that created the European Economic Community. Over the years, the region worked to expand the rights of its mobile workers, mandating equal treatment and non-discrimination on the basis of citizenship. The
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