Basic Treaty News Today

In times of shifting geopolitical moments, levels of volatility are typically matched by the potential to address unfolding crises and challenges to shape history. Now is no exception. It’s leadership that makes the difference - it will be so again.

The mounting tensions and risk of nuclear war that plague the Korean Peninsula today are typically attributed to a combination of North Korea’s aggressive nuclear posture and doctrine and the U.S.-South Korea alliance’s proactive deterrence countermeasures. However, while these factors are proximate and important, they themselves stem from a deeper, fundamental cause. The longstanding division of the Korean Peninsula has trapped the two Koreas in an endless unification competition to outcomp...

Recent tensions between ethnic Serbs and Kosovar authorities have reached a dangerous level, with Serbia threatening to send in troops. The international community is seeking a solution.

The most recent tensions between ethnic Serbs and the authorities in Kosovo have reached a dangerous level, with Serbia threatening to deploy troops. The international community is seeking a solution.

The most recent tensions between ethnic Serbs and the authorities in Kosovo have reached a dangerous point, with Serbia threatening to deploy troops. The international community is seeking a solution.

Former German politician Wolfgang Nowak had trudged the waters of both West and East Germany before their unification in 1990. He saw how East Germany, also known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), stalled behind West Germany, but how both states never gave up on unification by signing the Basic Treaty in 1972, which allowed mutual cooperation on business, science, telecommunications and culture during the years that followed.

The Serbian Orthodox Church has proven to be an unavoidable factor in the political and social processes of the last nearly three years in the small Adriatic

Norways Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt has called the lists of proposals Russia has sent to NATO and the US, including a stop to the alliances expansion eastward, not feasible.

Norway's Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt has termed Russia’s security proposals to NATO and the US ‘unrealistic’ as tensions in the region continue to soar.

What’s new? Efforts to resolve the long-running dispute between Kosovo and Serbia over the former’s independence have foundered. EU-led talks brokered agreement on technical issues but have struggled to address core political questions. Washington’s mid-2020 mediation effort fell apart when Kosovo’s president had to step away because of war crimes charges. Why does it matter? The dispute freezes Kosovo out of the UN and many other international bodies, ensures that both countries ar...