The continual resistance of the main actors in Europe to show clear, coherent and a unified initiative concerning the need to enhance its relations with the resource rich Central Asian Republics through its advantageous relationship with Turkey, in spite of the encouragement of the US is causing the western hegemonic project to potentially wither away with the loss of "The Grand Chessboard"[1] Read more

Kosovo, which is formally a southern province of Serbia, has been a case which "exemplifies the ways in which ethnic communities in a multicultural setting may face problems in an environment of domestic hostility and regional rivalry." However, an even more important aspect of the Kosovo case is that it has "assumed a central role in the regional politics of the Balkans, a shift with strong im Read more