By Dr. Jack Caravelli The U.S.-Saudi relationship may be reaching a breaking point under mounting tensions over a series of political and financial issues. Saudi Arabia has been a (more…)
By Dr. Jack Caravelli The French energy giant Total has agreed to finance the next phase of a major energy deal with Iran, becoming the first Western energy company (more…)
By Dr. Jack Caravelli Building on its 2011 national cyber security strategy, the UK government has issued a new plan for the years 2016-2021, according to an unclassified version (more…)
By Dr. Jack Caravelli When those in London are not fixated on the U.S. presidential election, they are immersed in their own set of controversial political issues. In late (more…)
NatWest, a subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, announced in mid-October that it plans to close the UK accounts of Russia Today, also known as RT. RT (more…)
By Dr. Jack Caravelli For more than two years Russian President Vladimir Putin has initiated an aggressive series of policy decisions aimed at advancing Russian interests and undermining the (more…)
Russia has formed a new long-range Far East heavy bomber division. Moscow’s Defense Ministry announced on Oct. 6 that the Tyazheloy Bombardirovochnoy Aviatsionnoy Divizii, or HBD/TBAD, would patrol Pacific (more…)
President Vladimir Putin is looking to expand Russia’s military power and restore Moscow’s global reach of the Soviet era. Moscow on Oct. 10 announced it was planning to make (more…)
By Jack Caravelli UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced her nation will begin the lengthy process of leaving the European Union no later than the end of March 2017, (more…)
