CIRSD Opens G20 Think-tank Forum in China
CIRSD President Vuk Jeremic gave the keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the inaugural conference of think-tanks affiliated with the G20 meeting under the auspices of China’s 2016 presidency. Held in the southern city of Shenzhen, famous for having launched China’s historic ‘reform and opening…
Pipeline politics to return to the fore in the Caucasus and Central Asia
Max Hess The future of European gas resources may run through the South Caucasus. 2016 is likely to be a pivotal year in determining the extent of the region’s importance in gas transit, as well as the role of Central Asian states, and potentially even Iran, in supplying these routes. Geopolitical c…
As Moldova Marches
Antonia Colibasanu The better-known “Radetzky March” is a musical march, Op. 228, composed by Jonah Strauss Sr. and played commonly at New Year’s concerts. Less famous, perhaps, is the book written by Joseph Roth that goes by the same name. Roth’s “The Radetzky March” is a score written to the rhyth…