... and primitive instincts these days. I can’t really figure out what’s the underlying problem behind that, but I start to think education matters. Education produces self-interested individuals with low moral standards. People don’t know their own history, there is a total absence of critical thinking. The current generation of leaders are mere individualistic bureaucrats who see their national interests through the same lenses as if it were a company that needs to outmaneuver their competitors”....
... the potential influence from on-land positions to the waters of trade. In consequence, current sea nations may find their economic ties cut as Asian flourishing states experienced with the deterioration of the Silk Road connections.
In conclusion, the history of the Silk Road is a lesson and the Houthis’ activities in the Red Sea are a signal for the contemporary economic relations based on the sea routes. Therefore, it is significant to remember the history of the crisis of trade along the Red Road ...
... historical aspects of oriental studies), international relations have traditionally been influenced by historical research methodology. Accordingly, even despite their interdisciplinary nature, these subjects have been affected by challenges encountered in history as a branch of learning.
Vasily Kuznetsov:
The Middle East: Postmodernism Is Over
In the 1990s, Russian historical science abandoned Marxism, yet failed to immediately develop revised theoretical and methodological foundations that would go beyond ...
... Great was a hero, although he cautioned against proving this statement by destroying government property. Indeed, Alexander the Great was the first to attempt the heroic feat of uniting the entire ecumene known to Europeans in BC 334–323. Certainly, history knew great conquerors before Alexander, people who established vast empires, but Alexander laid down, if we may say so, both the material and the ideological and political foundations of a globalization project in classical antiquity. Alexander ...
... winner
by ending hostilities, introducing peacekeepers, and maintaining its central role in the vital Caucasus region. However, Russia’s direct intervention in the Karabakh conflict with the November peace statement also bears echoes of much earlier history.
Echoes of the Past
Christian Wollny:
Nagorno-Karabakh: A Frozen Conflict Rethawed
On July 24 (August 4) 1783, at the southern Russian fortress of Georgiyevsk, representatives of Russian Empress Catherine the Great and Georgian King Erekle II ...
... assistance of the USSR until it gained power. After the founding of the PRC, China and the Soviet Union formed an alliance, and China applied the Soviet Union (USSR) model for socialist construction. Thus, it can be said that bilateral relations reflect the history of the Chinese revolution and the history of PRC's early development. In USSR, although Sino-Soviet relations did not occupy a dominant position, the importance of Sino-Soviet relations should not be neglected. Especially, China played a role ...
China and Russia act in accordance with their own interests, which are not always identical. For the time being, the creation of a Russo-Chinese military alliance isn’t a viable idea, and cooperation between China and Russia in the Arctic is exclusively economic.
China and Russia act in accordance with their own interests, which are not always identical. For the time being, the creation of a Russo-Chinese military alliance isn’t a viable idea, and cooperation between China and Russia in the Arctic...
While going through my archived papers dating back 30 years, I came upon this Oscar Wilde quote: “The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”
While going through my archived papers dating back 30 years, I came upon this Oscar Wilde quote: “The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”
This got me thinking how good it would be to go back in time and ...
... great power among other leading players in Europe, and later in the world. If there is one thing that Russia treasures most in the United Nations system, that is its position as a permanent veto-wielding member of the UN Security Council.
In Russian history, the Soviet period stands out for two aberrations resulting from the communist ideology that the country’s leaders embraced and served. One—the more short-lived of the two—was turning the state into a revolutionary vehicle for a global ideology-driven ...
Presentation to the XX April 2019 International Politics Conference
Presentation to the XX April 2019 International Politics Conference
Introduction
My presentation on contemporary Australia-Russia economic relations is divided into two sections. The first focuses on geo-economics, which looks at both countries current trade and foreign investment priorities, including the implications of China’s monumental One Belt One Road project (OBOR), in which Russia has often been characterised as an integral...
