Pugwash notes with deep appreciation the deposit of the fiftieth instrument of ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) on October 24, 2020.The Treaty will enter into force ninety days from that date. This will be an important result of the efforts of the United Nations, Secretary General Guterres and a large number of…

It is not a secret that the current COVID-19 pandemic has been affecting people all around the globe. The virus touched almost all spheres of regular life – i.e. it resulted in temporary or permanent closure of businesses, a rise in the unemployment rate, inability to physically spend time with family and friends. Such drastic changes in times of…

Dr. Salam Al Rabdi \ Author And Researcher In International Relations Violence is one of the means used in politics, regardless of its legitimacy and its philosophical ethics, and also away from the dialectics of social contract theory or human nature that revolve around the human instinct and the struggle for survival. Based on this, it can be said…

In the past couple of years, Russia has been thrust into the American political spotlight like never before, earning itself both a reputation and mythology that posits Russia as the ultimate James Bond villain. At the heart of this mythology are misconceptions about Russia's aims, goals, and intentions that originate from an American media culture that…

In the wake of general elections in Myanmar, scheduled for the 8th of November 2020, we discuss Myanmar’s domestic political equilibrium and international political settings where the elections will take place.Photo: REUTERS / Olivia Harris Next month, Myanmar is going to hold general elections. This electoral campaign is the third one, since the…

Erdogan is igniting new conflicts an wars in his pursuit for a Neo-Ottoman Empire. This time in the Caucasus. While Turkey held several joint maneuvres with Azerbaijan and there were talks about a Turkish military base in Azerbaijan, we now face a war between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Erdogan wants to send 4000 Turkish fighters from Syria in support of…

The Pandemic Policython is a nonpartisan online competition from October 23rd to 25th for students to write proposals for policy-based solutions to today's most pressing challenges. Over the course of the policython, teams of one to four members will hear from partners, receive guidance from leading academics whilst writing proposals, and submit their…

_ Yuri Kofner, junior economist, MIWI – Institute for Market Integration and Economic Policy; Nomuun Khaliun, officer, Investment Research Centre, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia, Masters in “Renewable energy and Governance”. Munich – Ulaanbaatar, 8 October 2020.
Stylized facts about Mongolia’s economic and trade development
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By: Dr. Salam AL Rabadi Based on an evaluation of the policies and strategies, that have been adopted to face the economic and financial repercussions of the global Covid 19 pandemic, addition to increasing pressure as a result of the difficult challenges for all countries on the deficit in the government budgets level, we can say that all the efforts…

_ Yuri Kofner, junior economist, MIWI – Institute for Market Integration and Economic Policy. Munich, 4 October 2020.
The EAEU should offer public goods
The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) is primarily a customs union and a common market for the free movement of goods, services, capital, and labor. The main task of the EAEU is the so-called…

While the discussion about a Sino-American war until recently was still confined to some think tanks, military experts and the Pentagon, TX Hammes Offshore Control, the CSBA Airsea Battle concept or RAND „War with China“, Harvard professor Graham Allinson´s book „Destined for War with China- How to avoid the Thucydides trap? started an open…

The world is facing an unprecedented crisis on several fronts. Lack of leadership by the United States has intensified many flash points around the world including nuclear threats and the abandonment of arms control negotiations, bio-safety, climate change, food insecurity, instability and tensions in the East, and increased pressure from nationalists…