On July 6, 2017, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced Cyprus’ 11th failed peace talk to reunify the north and south in 43 years. A divided nation since 1974, Cyprus is located in the eastern Mediterranean at a strategic commercial ...
This past week, the Turkish Chief of the General Staff sailed along the coast of a set of Aegean islands that have been the center of contested claims between Turkey and Greece. The following day, the Greek government announced that ...
This piece is the second installation of a two-part series on the Chinese One Belt, One Road strategy. To read the first installation, click here. Since Chinese President Xi Jinping first unveiled it in 2013, One Belt, One Road (OBOR) ...
When former Glimpse from the Globe correspondent Sean McGuire explained the origins of the Greek debt crisis and its devastating humanitarian consequences in October, 2012, he reported that Greece’s suicide rate had almost doubled between 2009 and 2010. Today, the ...
On the first of June, my family took our first cab of the vacation from Dublin Airport to our hotel in the city center. After exchanging small talk about the weather, my father asked the driver about the Irish economy. ...