Balkanalysis.com Director Chris Deliso recently featured an intriguingly insightful interview on the domestic and foreign policy issues facing Greece in the 21st century from John Sitilides, a government relations and global public policy specialist with Trilogy Advisors LLC, a Washington, D.C. government affairs company. Mr. Sitilides also chairs the State Department’s professional development program for [...]

Democratic Republic of Congo is seeking political stability, battling economic woes and stubborn rebel insurgencies as it gears up for elections due next year. The polls for the presidency and parliament, due to start in November 2011, will be the second since the official end to the 1998-2003 war, which drew in six foreign armies [...]

Jacob Zuma has surprised many in his role as mediator between the factions that comprise the Zimbabwean government. But even he nor the SADC can stop what seems to be a cyclical pattern that occurs when progression leads to a slowed inflation rate – Mugabe views it as cause for political capital and makes bold, [...]

The team at 1minutetosavetheworld have published a blog documenting the follow-up from South Korea’s Lee Myung-bak administration last year setting an ambitious goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent below “business-as-usual” projections through 2020 under its low-carbon, green growth vision. Shin Hyon-hee documents in the Korea Herald that the voluntary target, announced on the [...]

One of the principle driving factors behind our ideas in corporate foreign policy is the bifurcation of global financial and political influence.  With the rise of strong emerging economies such as China, India, and Brazil, and the steep losses in soft power suffered by the United States along with Wall Street’s struggles, it is only [...]