Category: International Affairs Spotlight | International Affairs Network

25Sep25 de September, 2026

Germany’s Zeitenwende 2.0: Shaping Europe’s New Security Order and the Strategic Implications for Portugal

Europe is entering a new security era, with the end of assumptions that underpinned European security since the end of the Cold War. This new era is marked by Russia’s war against Ukraine and growing great-power competition, namely China’s rise and increasing uncertainty about the long-term role of the United States. In this context, European...

By IANIAN Policy Briefs, International Affairs Spotlight

28Nov28 de November, 2024

Spotlight – Dezembro, 2024

O ano de 2024 trouxe enormes desafios e tendências que provavelmente marcarão o mundo por várias décadas. Na última edição do Spotlight sugerimos que este poderia ser o início de uma nova versão dos “loucos anos 20”, marcados não só pelas rápidas transformações na indústria e na tecnologia, mas também nos hábitos e padrões da...

By IANInternational Affairs Spotlight, The Spotlight

27Nov27 de November, 2023

Spotlight – December, 2023

Ao entrarmos em 2024, entraremos também num momento de avaliação intermédio das transformações que nos trazem os anos 20 do século XXI. A conclusão preliminar é a de que estes poderão bem ser de verdadeira transformação da sociedade global – uma nova versão dos “loucos anos 20”, marcados não só pelas muitas transformações rápidas na...

By IANInternational Affairs Spotlight, The SpotlightDeglobalization

Azerbaijan’s War Trophies Park – Ethnic Intolerance in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

Azerbaijan’s War Trophies Park – Ethnic Intolerance in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Last week, Azerbaijan unveiled its new ‘War Trophies Park’. The site, which is purportedly designed to celebrate the country’s efforts in the recent Nagorno-Karabakh war, is in reality no more than a menagerie to human suffering. To observers of the conflict, it is the most recent...

By Lewis ReadInternational Affairs Spotlight

Why Britain’s new Turkish trade deal moves the country further away from recognising the Armenian Genocide

The recent trade agreement between Britain and Turkey has been hailed a huge success by the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It is no surprise that Turkey’s strongman is all too happy to accept such a lucrative deal in light of his country’s faltering economy. However, this new agreement demonstrates a willingness to place economic...

By Lewis ReadInternational Affairs SpotlightBrexit

US Election Spotlight – A Biden Administration might be more conventional in style but the US will remain hawkish on technology in US-China trade relations

The stakes of an election for a United States convulsed by division, cynicism, misery and - in certain instances - open season in the streets have scarcely been so great. The outcome will have global implications too. Four years of President Trump’s half-baked worldview has created myriad problems in international relations and global order. Nowhere has...

By Gareth HeywoodInternational Affairs SpotlightBiden, TECH, transatlantic, US

07Oct7 de October, 2020

Conflict in the Caucasus: The Geopolitics of the Nagorno-Karabakh Clashes

The clashes in Nagorno Karabakh are the latest in a long series of confrontations between the Republic of Armenia and its neighbour the Republic of Azerbaijan. It perhaps comes as no surprise to close observers of the conflict that both sides blame one another for this most recent flare up. The defence ministry of Armenia has...

By Lewis ReadInternational Affairs Spotlight

01Jun1 de June, 2020

Trump’s latest move against Huawei is a pyrrhic victory in the race for AI supremacy. Here’s Why.

May 16th 2020. The Financial Times reported that the Trump Administration has ramped up pressure on Chinese telecoms company, Huawei, by tightening the export controls for US companies providing them with semiconductor technology. “We must amend our rules being exploited by Huawei … and prevent US technologies from enabling malign activities contrary to US national...

By Gareth HeywoodInternational Affairs SpotlightTECH, US

23Apr23 de April, 2020

The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on European economies and how this may redefine the concept of precarity

The global economic slowdown has shared centre stage with the immediate public health threat that the COVID-19 crisis presently poses. Spiralling unemployment, eye-watering government bailout packages, collapsing supply chains and consumer demand falling off a cliff have all but resigned the markets to a deep recession. Some commentators fail to see why the markets would...

By Gareth Heywood - Leiden UniversityInternational Affairs SpotlightCOVID, European Union

THE MOUSE AND THE TRAP: THREE WAYS TO ESCAPE SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM?

This short post aims at discussing escape-routes for the exponential growth of surveillance capitalist models in the digital world. By proposing three different alternatives, the work questions whether it is possible to escape the massive data harvesting that feeds companies like Google or Facebook and turns ‘free’ apps like Pokémon Go into data mining lucrative...

By Francisco Abreu DuarteInternational Affairs SpotlightSurveillance Capitalism