What Kendo and Nomads Can Teach Us About Learning in the AI Era
By Yerkin Tatishev, Founder of Almaty High Tech Academy, Chairman of Almaty Management University (AlmaU), and Founder of Kusto Group In 1996, IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov. In 2016, AlphaGo, developed by Google DeepMind, beat South Korea’s Lee Se-dol—not just calculating, but learning from its own mistakes. These milestones revealed […]
A Tale of Two Responses
In the span of just one week in April 2026, two Member States of the European Union held parliamentary elections that ended long political eras and brought new leaders to power on remarkably similar mandates. On April 12th, Hungarians handed Péter Magyar and his Tisza party a landslide victory, ending 16 years of Viktor Orbán’s […]
Xi Jinping’s Framework for the Middle East
Stefan Jovanović is Vice President of the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD). He previously served as a Member of Parliament of the Republic of Serbia and as a Country Representative to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Since the beginning of the latest wave of conflict in the Middle East, […]
Astana’s RES 2026 is Much More than an Environmental Initiative
Stefan Antić is a Visiting Fellow at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs. The upcoming Regional Ecological Summit (RES 2026) in Astana, scheduled for April 22-24 will serve as another venue for Kazakhstan to act as Central Asia’s regional agenda-setter. Two particular initiatives have positioned the summit as a major diplomatic project. First, its initiation […]
The Quiet Keystone: How Kyrgyzstan Forms the Core of Europe-Asia Connectivity
Stefan Antić is the Managing Editor of Horizons and a Visiting Fellow at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs. It is very rare that one hears about the importance of Kyrgyzstan to the vast world outside the Central Asian region. This country, much like the region it finds itself in, is often undeservedly underestimated, yet […]
The Institutionalization of Terrorism: How the West Has Used Terrorism for Geopolitical Gain
Anja Šofranac is a graduate student at the Belgrade Open School and a research and communications intern at the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD). An old African proverb says, “When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.” The post-World War II period set a sta…
The Liberal World Order and De-dollarization: Can BRICS Offer a Stable Alternative?
Aleksandar Jakovljević is a research and communications intern at the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD). The 17th BRICS Summit, entitled “Strengthening Multilateralism for Just Global Development and Security,” took place in 2024 in Kazan, the capital …
Starvation as a method of warfare and applicable IHL
This essay briefly explores the relevant legal framework that covers the conduct of starvation under IHL, paying particular attention to how this phenomenon is defined under the Geneva Conventions, their Additional Protocols, and within the IHL Customary Rules of the International Committee of the R…
Artificial Intelligence: Terrorism and International Relations
Artificial Intelligence: Terrorism and International Relations Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development Mateja Nikolic (April 10th, 2024) The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing not only the field of Information Technology (IT) but most aspects of hum…
We Urgently Need a New Movement to Fix Global Development
Elena Panaritis is an economist and Founder of Thought4Action, an “action tank” striving for the elimination of socio-economic barriers. She formerly served as a Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Greece and Member of the Greek Parliament. You may follow her on X @Elena_Panaritis. In recent de…