#Blog Posts

      President’s Trump’s peace plan, which includes the controversial measure of annexing parts of Area C in the West Bank and settlements under Israel rule, is progressively drifting further and further away from its initial specifications. Its implementation …

       The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an almost insurmountable issue for the majority of the world’s governments—official and de facto alike– to fight. In de facto states– typified for their often informal and fractured structure– COVID-19 has presented …

       Amid the global and regional turmoil caused by COVID-19, the de-facto Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR) had to face not only the pandemic and its economic implications, but also undergo a transition of power, for the first time …

      On February 17th, Milorad Dodik—the Serb representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (BiH) tripartite presidency—declared, in English notably, “Goodbye (BiH), welcome RS-exit.” RS, referring to Republika Srpska—BiH’s Serb entity. Evoking his own version of ‘brexit,’ Dodik led Serb …

     On the 25th of March, the newly established government in Kosovo, led by the Self-Determination Movement (VV), fell in response to a no-confidence motion presented in the Parliament by the Kosovo Democratic League (LDK). This party was part …

       Aslan Bzhania, leader of the united opposition of Abkhazia, has become the new president of the republic following the snap elections on March 22nd. The Abkhazian elites, and voters, consider this campaign a chance to stabilize Abkhazia’s …

       Candlelight vigils, somber renditions of Auld Lang Syne, patriotic flags, tear-filled speeches… What I am describing could very well be a funeral, and perhaps in some ways it was…the death of Scotland’s 47-year-old relationship with the EU …

      On 11 January 2020, Taiwan, officially calls itself Republic of China or ROC (Taiwan), held a general election for the island’s 15th President and Vice President, as well as all 113 members of the 10th Legislative Yuan, …

  Late last year, I set up a YouTube channel focusing on secession and state creation. I had been thinking about it for a while, but finally took the plunge at the end of October. Almost five months later, here …

      Early last year, Exxon Mobile announced a discovery of gas fields near Cyprus. The sudden, albeit only projected, wealth has put people thinking about the future of the island. Among other topics – the political future of …