24 January, 2015, Cairo, Egypt. Shaimaa al-Sabbagh lies in the street unconscious. A colleague from her political party tries to make her stand up, but he cannot. A policeman has shot her with a buckshot bullet, shortly while she was fighting for the right to protest.

Using the language of diplomacy and humanitarian intervention, the UN Security Council on August 6, 1990 in resolution 66I, imposed multilateral economic sanctions on Iraq. All exports and imports from Iraq, with few exceptions, were banned. Nine years later, a […]

It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore that the waves of protests that shook the Middle East in 2011 have repositioned the theocracy of Saudi Arabia as the main stakeholder in the region.