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Kazakhstan, Central Asia's giant, is stirring and the Russians are not amused
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Kazakhstan, Central Asia's giant, is stirring and the Russians are not amused

22 May 2021
Kazakhstan is exploring its options. The government has embarked on a series of reforms, as yet mainly in the economic sphere, although reforms in the governance sector are also inevitable. They include slimming down the bloated state bureaucracy and also slowly re-calibrating Kazakh foreign policy to make it less dependant on Russia. The Russians are not amused, says Dennis Sammut in this op-ed
Dennis Sammut
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Opinion: The elusive quest for peace in the Caucasus
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Opinion: The elusive quest for peace in the Caucasus

14 January 2021
Peace in the Caucasus for the last three decades has been elusive, and appears to remain so. Lulls between fighting sometimes offer some respite from the violence, but real peace remains absent. It is now needed more than ever, but the "Pax Putin" is not the solution, argues Dennis Sammut in this op-ed
Dennis Sammut
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New Year Message from the Managing Editor of commonspace.eu
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New Year Message from the Managing Editor of commonspace.eu

31 December 2020
We live in a world where disinformation has become widespread, and where open societies find themselves vulnerable to malicious attacks from dark forces wrapped in religious bigotry or false nationalism. Disinformation and Radicalisation have now become the biggest enemies of the values we cherish and our way of life. European civil society and think tank communities need to step up in the face of the current challenges.
Dennis Sammut
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Monday Commentary: If Russians and Turks start killing each other in Libya and Syria, the consequences may be unpredictable
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Monday Commentary: If Russians and Turks start killing each other in Libya and Syria, the consequences may be unpredictable

3 February 2020
Reflecting on new tensions in Russian-Turkish relations Dennis Sammut says that Erdogan is not the first one to discover that the hug of the Russian bear comes with a price. Others, not least in the Caucasus region, are watching as this drama unfolds, and wondering what the consequences may be.
Dennis Sammut
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Monday Commentary: What if?
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Monday Commentary: What if?

20 January 2020
The Conference on Libya held in Berlin on Sunday (19 January) was high diplomacy at its best. In this week's Monday Commentary Dennis Sammut asks what if the same level of commitment by the top leaders of the top countries of the world is put in solving some of the other big challenges and conflicts?
Dennis Sammut