Tag "World War I"
Middle East/North Africa
Security
The Sykes-Picot agreement and its lasting implications
In 1916, France and the United Kingdom agreed to a partition of areas of influence in the Middle East. The Sykes-Picot continues to have far reaching implications a hundred years later.
Europe
Security
Can the EU create a common defence policy?
Although countries have framed the debate about arms exports to Russia and Iraq in largely economic or national terms, defence policy also plays an important part in these debates, especially
Europe
Politics
4 things the world in 2014 shares with 1914
There are striking parallels between the world in 1914 and 2014. While we may not see another world war break out, the various challenges confronting the world today and the
