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World Re-binarized: A Brief history of the Sino-American collision course

19:27 24.01.2022 Anis Bajrektarević

World Re-binarized: A Brief history of the Sino-American collision course

Americans performed three very different policies on the People’s Republic: From a total negation (and the Mao-time mutual annihilation assurances), to Nixon’s sudden cohabitation. Finally, a Copernican-turn: the US spotted no real ideological differences between them and the post-Deng China. This signalled a ‘new opening’: West imagined China’s coastal areas …

Rome, Ankara and il Mediterraneo allargato

16:35 03.05.2021 Vladislav Gulevich

Rome, Ankara and il Mediterraneo allargato

Italy and Turkey are facing an aggravation of the geopolitical rivalry in the Mediterranean. The sphere of Italy’s influence in the region is territorially overlapping that of Turkey, sparkling a variety of diplomatic scandals.Italy’s new Prime Minister Mario Draghi has described the Turkish president as a dictator with whom Rome …

Russia-Turkey: the Treaty of Moscow – a century on

12:38 17.03.2021 Andrey Isayev

Russia-Turkey: the Treaty of Moscow – a century on

A century ago, on March 16, 1921, Soviet Russia and the government of the Turkish Grand National Assembly signed the so-called Treaty of Moscow, where the signatories pledged to establish "... permanent cordial relations and indissoluble sincere friendship" between their two countries, based on the recognition of the people’s right …

Vaccine vs geopolitics? Political ambitions may slow down battle against global pandemic

11:55 04.12.2020 Andrey Kadomtsev

Vaccine vs geopolitics? Political ambitions may slow down battle against global pandemic

Foreign pharmaceutical companies have been vying with one another in being the first to announce the launch of an anti-coronavirus vaccine and having it registered by healthcare authorities. Meanwhile, the Russian vaccine “Sputnik V”, which was the first to be presented to the world, has demonstrated 95 percent efficiency in …

Each pole to have a “digital”. National digital currencies may become another sphere of competition

12:49 02.10.2020 Andrey Kadomtsev

Each pole to have a “digital”. National digital currencies may become another sphere of competition

According to China Finance, an edition of People’s Bank of China, China should become the first country to launch into circulation a digital national currency. Reports by Reuters say a move of this kind will facilitate China’s efforts to expand the international status of yuan and reduce the country’s dependence …

Coronavirus force majeure and new world order

13:47 11.08.2020 Mark Neumark

Coronavirus force majeure and new world order

The current pandemic has given rise to a variety of forecasts and judgements on a wide range of issues that are directly or indirectly related to the future world order. These predictions can be divided into two main groups. The first group incorporates factors of unceertainty in global politics which …

EU-US: new geopolitical disharmonies

20:03 19.07.2020 Mark Neumark

EU-US: new geopolitical disharmonies

The article analyzes new trends in the development of the transatlantic partnership, laying bare the contradictions and problems that have recently been complicating the allied ties between the US and the EU.Donald Trump's presidency has led to a noticeable cooling of relations between the United States and the European Union. …

India and China: conflict or cooling?

11:47 16.06.2020 Andrey Kadomtsev

India and China: conflict or cooling?

Early May saw a new aggravation of the border conflict between India and China, this time in Ladakh. The withdrawal of extra contingents, which had been brought to the border during a few weeks of the confrontation, began only on June 10th, following a series of online and offline meetings …

Croatia fears Greater Hungary

13:49 13.05.2020 Vladislav Gulevich

Croatia fears Greater Hungary

The angry reaction by Croatia’s President Zoran Milanovic to a publication by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in which he presented the map of Greater Hungary has demonstrated Zagreb’s concern over Budapest’s moves to re-evaluate the events of the past that determined Hungary’s present-day borders. (1). For Croatia, its proximity …

Crossroads or a dead end: do Germany and Europe face a triumph of indecision?

11:58 09.12.2019 Andrey Kadomtsev

Crossroads or a dead end: do Germany and Europe face a triumph of indecision?

In late November, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a number of rather controversial statements. On November 26, Germany, together with France, issued a brief “road map” for EU reform. Within the next two ears this plan is to be discussed by the “Conference on the Future of Europe,” tasked with …

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