... All we have to do is look closely.
The Nemunas (Memel) River with a view of Kaliningrad oblast/Königsberg, summer 2023
West
There’s also a lot of excitement on the “Western front.” With Donald Trump as president of the US, the pressure on the EU will grow. The trade war between the US and China will intensify and, in keeping with the dictum “Make America great again,” not only will the conversation’s tone become harsher, we will see whether the US becomes part of a multi-polar or multi-regional ...
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- 04.12.2024 16:31:02
... Belgrade is a strategic partner and "ally of Russia".
Putin greeted his Serbian colleague Aleksandar Vučić, whom he invited to attend the upcoming BRICS summit in Kazan.
Source: TASS
This Slavic solidarity, however, was not approved by the European Union. The next day, EU foreign affairs spokesman Peter Stano said that maintaining or even intensifying ties with Russia at the time of its illegal aggression against the Ukrainian people is not in line with EU values.
Vulin's visit to Russia ...
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- 10.10.2024 16:39:18
The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has reached a critical juncture, raising fears that it could escalate into a broader European conflict. Initially a regional dispute, the conflict now poses a serious threat to the entire continent. The United States appears to be driving the conflict, seeing potential benefits regardless of the outcome. However, Europe is already facing ...
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- 17.06.2024 17:36:40
Central Asia in the age of digital technologies finds itself between two megaprojects of China and the European Union as the Russian Empire and British Empire in the XIX century competed for this one of the most landlocked regions of the world. The victory of the Russian Empire in this contest decided where the transport lines of Central Asia would be ...
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- 04.04.2024 18:13:04
Central Asia has long been viewed as a region searching for routes to export rich oil and gas resources to the global market. Currently, with its pipelines heading to Europe crossing through Russia's vast territory and the closest warm seaports in sanctioned Iran, there are few options for Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan to trade their energy around the world. Yet, with advances in the automobile industry ...
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- 29.02.2024 13:25:05
... Nagorno Karabakh war it became obvious that existing political, social, economic and geopolitical disposition keeps pre-existed status-quo: Russia in, the West out, Armenia and Azerbaijan on the brink of yet another military confrontation.
Source: Reuters
The Reaction
Taking this into consideration it is highly interesting how another South Caucasian state, Georgia, reacted on the processes? Analyzing an overall reaction of Georgian political establishment as well as a local academia, professor ...
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- 04.12.2023 16:51:23
... imbalance if not for the mass impoverishment caused by runaway Wall Street greed. Just when did the production of durable products become a socioeconomic problem?
We see this sinister logic being repeated nearly a century later under different pretexts. The European Union and Britain, for example, have pledged to ban new diesel and petrol cars from 2035. This climate-linked policy has also resulted in a senseless campaign against livestock and vegetation.
Bernard London’s solutions also appear to foreshadow ...
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- 13.11.2023 18:42:47
I introspect what, if anything, would big powers and small countries expect of each other in this uncertain era – and how alignment would look like. In particular, I am interested in Eastern Europe, which historically played a geo-political buffer role.
Source: Le Figaro
Avons nous besoin des Russes ?... ”We do not need anybody !“, hands down the verdict the eisen-stimme of elite exceptionazism [01, 02, 03] - so much so that they cannot ...
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- 26.10.2023 14:16:43
... Minsk group, alongside the US and Russia, aiming to help find a solution in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. It is thus important to analyze the reasons and objectives behind Paris mediation efforts between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as France is the only EU country that has been a member of OSCE Minsk Group since 1997.
Source: Daily Sabah
France-Armenia and France-Azerbaijan Relations
Understanding France’s relations with Armenia and Azerbaijan is imperative in order to properly understand its role ...
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- 19.09.2023 16:12:21
... managed to finally set up basic rules, widely supported and shared by a majority of Georgian society. The most important were to restrain aggressive nationalistic attitudes and ensure non-violent processes, not letting history to be repeated.
Source: Reuters
Unfortunately, these basic agreements are currently actively shattered by various Western-financed non-government activists and political opposition. Furthermore, it is obvious that politically motivated members of Ukrainian elites as well as some ...
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- 31.08.2023 16:45:59
Greece is one of the poorest members of the European Union, having been battered by the IMF, Brussels and the European Bank into the status of an economic slave: hundreds of thousands of young people have left the country; the unemployment rate is high; and social services have been seriously eroded....
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- 28.06.2023 17:43:34
... away from peace than ever. What humanity urgently needs now is common sense to secure peace, as we are living in an “in-between time” or, as we used to say, “between the years”: We are living in between two world orders.
Source: moderndiplomacy.eu
The hegemony of the US, established after the Second World War, is now slowly dissolving, and the sphere of influence of the self-proclaimed “Western community of values” is being minimized. In the East, where the sun rises, and thus hope, new ...
- Опубликовано:
- 19.06.2023 17:46:39
Author - Ulrike Reisner, political scientist, Vienna, Austria. Original publication on picreadi.com
With funds from the European Peace Facility, the European Union now plans to procure munition for Ukraine. In doing so, the EU is once again contradicting itself as a "peace project". If it still wants to take itself seriously, it would be high time to invest the ...
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- 30.03.2023 10:12:04
... Greece over its legitimate building of a radar station on Limnos, first for national defence purposes, and then integrated into NATO’s radar network. Britain recognised Greece’s objections to Turkish sabre-rattling: the Head of the FCO’s Southern European Department (SED) consulted Western Organisations Department (WOD), including the comment ‘what looked prima facie like a strong Greek case in law’.2 In a typical bout of taking French leave of the problem, WOD replied: ‘The last thing that ...
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- 08.09.2020 16:06:21
_ Yuri Kofner, head, Eurasian sector, Higher School of Economics. Moscow, 4 September 2017. On April 7th, 2017, a working group of representatives from leading German companies signed the 10-point “Berlin Memorandum” containing proposals for the next steps towards ...
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- 04.09.2017 10:09:43
On 16 May 2017, Jurij Kofner, director, Center for Eurasian Studies, research fellow, IIASA (Vienna, Austria) gave a presentation at the young experts school "International Cooperation of the Eurasian Economic Union" that took place from 15 to 19 May 2017 at the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus ...
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- 21.08.2017 09:15:31
_ Yuri Kofner, director, Center for Eurasian Studies, research fellow, IIASA. Moscow, 14 August 2017.IntroductionOn April 3rd, 2017 the Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission Tigran Sargsyan and the President of the Republic of Moldova Igor Dodon signed in Chisinau a ...
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- 14.08.2017 17:54:58
Introduction: the absence of geopolitical reflexion at EU level The current geopolitical situation is a pivotal moment when the objective of unity in the European project is not working anymore. Liberal and Human rights normative ideologies as the basis of the project are more and more contested by national-realists ...
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- 21.04.2017 15:44:44
... years. India is Asia’s second important most economy and market after China; militarily India having intern-continental strategic access, in space technology its mission to Mars has placed it fifth among the outer space nations after USA, Russia, EU, and China. Besides, being strategically closer to USA and Russia both at the same time, India has emerged as an alternative to China, if not counter to it, in the politics of world balance of power. The economic growth rate, development pace, and ...
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- 13.04.2017 16:59:40
... President Vladimir Putin’s well-orchestrated, wide-ranging cyberassault, part of Russia’s wider war on Western democracy
By Brian E. Frydenborg December 7th, 2016 (a condensed, edited version of this article is featured on War Is Boring)
Reuters
AMMAN — It is fitting that, on the anniversary of Japan’s Pearl Harbor attack, I am publishing an article discussing an attack far worse in its overall effects on America than Pearl Harbor: if December 7th, 1941, is “a date ...
- Опубликовано:
- 17.12.2016 22:44:00
