Research

Neutrality is a concept many countries have turned to at one point or another in history in an attempt to safeguard their national sovereignty and territorial integrity. This article, after introducin...

The concept of Swiss neutrality is almost as old as the country itself and has now been infused within Switzerland’s national identity. Due to unique historical and geographical circumstances, it be...

The adoption of the policy of neutrality and non-alignment in Sweden came from the pragmatic realisation that with great powers in its immediate or indirect neighbourhood the only chance to avoid wars...

The roots of Christian democracy stretch far, at least to the beginning of the 19th century. In our former article entitled the Forgotten Origins of Christian Democracy, published in the Hungarian Con...

Growing rapprochement between China and Iran was only a matter of time. While Tehran got isolated by US sanctions and its sectarian-based regional hostility, China’s Belt and Road Initiative and gro...

In just a year into Joe Biden’s presidency, we already see that the administration’s work is riddled within both its domestic and foreign policy initiatives. The pragmatic and US-centred foreign...

In every French presidential campaign, there are specific issues candidates centre their programmes around. It is not different in 2022 either, when the country prepares for the two rounds of the suff...

After US-Israeli relations have seen a flourishing development during Trump’s presidency, Joe Biden’s intention to rebalance US foreign policy could bring the era of neglection to the Middle Eas...

Christian democracy, like other political ideologies, has a solid value orientation. Naturally, values tend to change in the light of the dominant norms of the current society. Still, there is a gener...