Why the G7 Must Rethink Its Relationship with the Global South
Photo: MEAphotogallery, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 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. The recurring calls from leaders across the Global […]
The End of the Rules Based International Order? A World Historical Perspective
Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 4.0 Jongsoo Lee is Senior Managing Director at Brock Securities and Local Affiliate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. He is also Contributing Editor at The Diplomat. He can be followed on X (Twitter) at @jameslee004. Do the changes in international relations and U.S. foreign policy […]
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
Ranko Vranić is a Research Fellow at the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD) and an Assistant Editor of Horizons. 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 […]
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 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…