Yasemin Zeisl

The harvesting of natural resources from space objects is the goal of numerous companies. Given that calculations evaluate space mining as a highly lucrative business with potential profits amounting to trillions in U.S.-dollars, it is unsurprising that ...

The death of 29-year old journalist Lyra McKee in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on April 18, 2019 was an incident among a series of violent disputes between the New Irish Republican Army and police forces in Northern Ireland...

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), also known as One Belt One Road, was launched in 2013 under China’s President Xi Jinping. It is a global infrastructure project intended to link China with countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe...

The Kurds are the fourth-largest ethnic group in the Middle East, but they do not possess a sovereign state of their own. This fact highlights that conflict along Turkey’s borders with Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Armenia — where 25-35 million Kurds are settled — seems inevitable...

While the first diplomatic negotiations between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore in June 2018 suggested positive developments, the second summit in Hanoi in late February 2019 is considered a failure. The governments in Washington, D.C. and Pyongyang are currently in a deadlock...

By the year 2020, the Chinese government will have installed a national social credit system that will influence the lives of 1.4 billion people. China will give its citizens a financial credit status that is linked to every aspect of their social life...

Ever since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, President Donald Trump has fueled a global circulation of the buzzword ‘fake news’. While his understanding of the term connotes...

A bilateral free trade agreement between Japan and the European Union (EU) has been forthcoming since 2013. Six years later, on February 1, 2019, the trade deal finally entered into force, becoming the largest trade agreement since the Trans-Pacific Partnership...

In recent years artificial intelligence (AI) has started seeping into government services, aiding or replacing human labor. Estonia’s chief data officer, Ott Velsberg, is currently working towards the installation of AI in courts...

The results of the Turkish local elections held on March 31, 2019 are a punch in the gut for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his hold on power...