Year: 2022

Tianyi Liu* & Giuseppe Bettoni** tianyiliu760@gmail.com & giuseppe.bettoni@uniroma2.it Italy is the only G7 country to participate in China's Belt and Road Initiative. The Belt and Road Initiative offers tremendous opportunities...

Sitong Lin* s.lin40@lse.ac.uk After having been widely conceptualized as a security concern, climate change is being recently questioned about whether it is or even should be a security issue (Von...

Yukio Sakurai* yukio1887@gmail.com Introduction On 8 July 2022, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (1954-2022) was shot-killed by a gunman while giving a speech in support of a candidate for the...

Poornima Vijaya* prvijaya@jgu.edu.in Why did we not all see this coming? It is perhaps the most repeatedly asked question in apropos to the Covid-19 pandemic. This question carries substantial merit...

Dr Mark Meirowitz mmeirowitz@sunymaritime.edu Professor, State University of New York (SUNY) Maritime College, Associate Fellow at CESRAN International Introduction The world has recently experienced a series of shocks: the COVID-19...

Yukio Sakurai sakurai-yukio-xj@ynu.jp A retired businessman, is a PhD candidate at Yokohama National University (YNU) in Japan  Introduction It is believed that viral infections, including tuberculosis, have been overcome in...

Pema Tseten Lachungpa Pematseten5@gmail.com Independent Researcher, Sikkim, India On the morning of 1st February 2021, when the world was still grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic, the Myanmar military declared a...

Anonymous Introduction The Russo-Georgian war started on the 8th of August 2008, when Russian forces crossed the border from the Russian-controlled North Ossetia into the Georgian de jure controlled South...