By Mehmet Enes Beşer For much of the past decade, the European Union has struggled to formulate a clear and independent policy toward China. Struggling between the gravitational force of its historic bond with the United States and the multidimensional realities of its economic dependence on Beijing, Brussels has all too frequently been caught reacting instead of acting—following American-led containment ...

Libya has been divided since 2014 between two rival administrations –  one in the west and one in the east, as it was plunged into a civil war after the NATO intervention and Muammar Ghaddafi’s overthrow. Although a United Nations-mediated unitary government has been formed, the political crisis in the country still continues, as the power struggles between the east ...