The Visegrad countries are considered to be part of the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region, which appeared to be high on the Chinese political agenda in the recent few years. But the interest of China seems overvalued.
Envisaged by the Chinese government as an initiative to create a win-win cooperation for all countries involved, the Belt and Road Initiative is unprecedented in its scope, aim and funding. However, the project has also received a score of criticisms.
As 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of UDHR, it is rather timely to reflect – as a community and as an individual – upon the gains and lapses of the implementation of the Declaration amidst the criticisms
Shaping a sustainable and European Austrian foreign policy: conference paper and policy recommendations from the Vienna event of the Talking Europe conference series published
In the past decades, China’s economy has improved steadily, and this growth has been instrumental in their various investments worldwide. Through its development banks, infrastructure initiatives, military development and soft power investments, it has made itself a major player in
Touted as the Hermit Kingdom, the North Korea was once part for many centuries of a united Korean Peninsula, together with South Korea. The separation story began when Japan occupied Korea in 1910. Japan colonized the Peninsula for the next
The recent developments in European Union Security Policy, its influences as well as a critical reflection about it were the main topics presented by Lukas Wank from Shabka at the World Youth Academy’s International Security Policy Summit in Vienna from 30
Benjamin Disraeli once mentioned that the “youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity”. Given an international landscape whereby the international youth unemployment rate is reported to be high and has been fluctuating in a relatively similar range for
“[G]arments worn in the West are still made by humans — nearly all of them women, working exhausting hours, with few legal protections and little chance of advancement, for some of the lowest wages in the global supply chain.” (Ellen
On Friday, 04th May 2018, Shabka was excited to hold the first Salon abroad in Tripoli, Lebanon. We discussed the general question of Western influence in the Middle East under the title “Power vs Limitations: What is the Western Role
