Tensions over Kashmir remain at the sticking point of Indian-Pakistani diplomatic relations. In today's Questions and Answers presentation, the CSS' Prem Mahadevan explains the current dynamics shaping this 'frozen' conflict and weighs the prospects for their long-term resolution.

Natural Gas Europe was pleased to interview Sergey Komlev, Head of Contract Structuring and Pricing Directorate at Gazprom Export in advance of the European Gas Conference in Vienna.

Religion often plays an important role in civil wars but is it ever THE precipitating cause behind them? As he explains in today’s Questions and Answers, the CSS’s Owen Frazer doesn’t think so. He sees (and describes) an interplay of factors that drive civil conflicts.

In the last two decades, Vietnam has gone through major changes in economic system and institutional system.

State Minister for Reintegration Paata Zakareishvili recently announced that the railway passing through Abkhazia and connecting Russia with Georgia should be opened without any pre-conditions.

The world seems to be caught in a vortex of bifurcations, that may land us in a very different environment, with much more uncertainty and perils.

Macedonia's leading opposition party has accused the European Union of overlooking threats to democracy in the country, as anti-government protests continued yesterday (3 January) for the 11th day.

Georgia’s new government is taking its first steps in building a new relationship between Georgia and its northern neighbor. However, opinions vary on the likelihood of its success.

The abundant oil and natural gas resources in Iraq’s Kurdistan region are both attractive and problematic. Hydrocarbon trade in the region has met some juridical setbacks due to a lack of consensus between the Iraq’s federal government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) regarding the sharing of hydrocarbon revenues.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to attend the EU-Russia summit in Brussels later this month.