On 1st of November of 2020, with the mediation of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, and the Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliyev, signed a declaration regarding “a complete ceasefire and end to all hostilities in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone”. President Vladimir Putin confirmed the signing…

The conflict between Georgia’s neighbours Armenia and Azerbaijan escalated on the 27th of September of 2020 in Nagorno-Karabakh and its adjacent 6 regions, occupied by the Armenian armed forces, in the early 1990s of the 20th century, with the support of Russia. To this day under a million internally displaced…

On 15 September, U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu together with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrein Abdullatif bin Rashid Alzayani marked the signing of peace agreements between Israel…

Tensions escalated in the Eastern Mediterranean in summer 2020 after Turkey sent a survey ship, accompanied by warships, on 10 August, to the territory near the island of Kastellorizo, which Turkey declared as its own exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Greece claiming jurisdiction over the island called on Turkey to return…

The pandemic inflicted a heavy damage on the entire world. Rapid decline in global Gross Domestic Product is well underway and the ongoing recession is deeper than all economic crises over the past 150 years. The International Monetary Fund’s world economic outlook for 2020 is even more negative: decline is…

The novel coronavirus, which emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, and the pandemic caused by its global spread, significantly changed the international policy agenda in the coming months, and the fight against this pandemic has become one of the primary tasks of the whole world, including…

Zaal Margvelashvili – Security in the Black Sea Area Download Document Author: Zaal Margvelashvili, Research Fellow at the Levan Mikeladze Diplomatic Training and Research Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia November 2019 Security and stability is a necessary precondition for steady development, successful integration into the global…

Zaal Margvelashvili – Georgia and Key Challenges of Brexit Download Document Author: Zaal Margvelashvili, Research Fellow at the Levan Mikeladze Diplomatic Training and Research Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia November 2019 To date, one of the most important events in the political life of the EU…

David Aptsiauri – One Belt One Road – “Chinese Initiative as a New Model of Global Economic Cooperation” Download Document Author: David Aptsiauri, General Director of the Georgian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Research Fellow at the Levan Mikeladze Diplomatic Training and Research Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs…

Giorgi Goguadze – The Role of the Global Coalition in Defeating the Islamic State (Daesh) Download Document Author: Giorgi Goguadze, Director at Georgian Center for Strategy and Development 2019 On 24 September, 2014, within the UN General Assembly, the the US President Barak Obama addressed the member states and underlined…