In the last few weeks, the spotlight of international debate shifted away from Syria and focused instead on the events related to North Korea.

Fifty days ago, on 23 June 2016, the people of the United Kingdom went to the polls to vote on whether the UK should withdraw from the European Union (the so-called “Brexit”).

Prior to the PiS party (Law and Justice, a right-wing party) achieving a majority in the parliamentary elections in late 2015, Poland enjoyed 8 years of relatively calm state governance by the PO party (Civil Platform, a central-right-wing party).

On Sunday 28 March 2016, a suicide attack killed 70 people and wounded 300 in a Lahore park.

Since the end of the Cold War era, armed conflict between superpowers seems to be a thing of the past.