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Afghanistan: “new protest” movements

15:00 05.08.2011 Nikolai Kozyrev

Afghanistan: “new protest” movements

Wide-scale protest movements in the Middle East have not overshadowed the Afghan issue - on the contrary they have somehow clarified the state of things in Afghanistan. Now it is clear that in 2011 the situation there has become even more complicated: mass mop-up operations by US and NATO forces …

Four months of war in Libya

15:00 02.08.2011 Аnatoly Tsyganok

Four months of war in Libya

NATO’s military operation against Libya, conducted mainly by the armed forces of the US, France and Britain, is speeding up the formation of a new system of international relations. At the same time the war serves as a firing ground for testing the strategy of the United States Africa Command …

Henry Kissinger on Historical Memory and World War III

15:00 01.08.2011 Armen Oganesyan

Henry Kissinger on Historical Memory and World War III

ON MAY 17, Henry Kissinger's latest book On China reached the American bookshops. This is a book about China but the panoramic thinking of the "last of the Mohicans" of international politics extended beyond China, a starting point for the man whose vast experience and an absolute relevance of whose …

Norway's Enigmatic «Lone Terrorist»

15:00 27.07.2011 Yuri Gavrilechko

Norway's Enigmatic «Lone Terrorist»

Anders Breivik already seems to have emerged as one of the XX century's top-famous terrorists. Day by day, his popularity visibly grows not only in the ranks of the European radical right but also among the Europeans with otherwise mainstream views. Grabbing the media headlines, the Oslo and Utoya Island …

Europe's Quiet Corner Under Terrorist Attack

15:00 25.07.2011 Dmitri Sedov

Europe's Quiet Corner Under Terrorist Attack

The September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the New York Trade Center left the world divided. The US Administration and its giant propaganda machine made huge efforts to convince their audiences that the terrorist act had been perpetrated by Al Qaeda, but the developments that followed pointed with utmost clarity …

Turkey’s Geopolitical Interests and Middle East Revolts

15:00 20.07.2011 George Protopapas

Turkey’s Geopolitical Interests and Middle East Revolts

“Arab Spring” is dramatically shifting the regional balance of power in the Middle East and North Africa creating a new status of winners and losers. Arab uprising challenges Turkish foreign policy which is based on ‘’zero problems’’ policy with its neighbors. Turkey’s most significant challenge is to define its role …

Skeptical Remarks on the Eve of the Hannover Russia-Germany Summit

15:00 18.07.2011 Vaslili Kashirin

Skeptical Remarks on the Eve of the Hannover Russia-Germany Summit

There is consensus across the expert community that a new phase of the settlement in Transnistria was energized by the June 4-5, 2010 informal meeting between Russian President D. Medvedev and German Chancellor A. Merkel in the Meseberg Castle near Berlin. The key result produced by the talks was Russia's …

Libya's «Freedom Fighters» Found to Engage in Pillage

15:00 15.07.2011 Dmitri Sedov

Libya's «Freedom Fighters» Found to Engage in Pillage

According to a recent New York Times article, Human Rights Watch released materials citing cases of gross abuse by anti-Gadhafi rebels in a mountainous area located in the western part of Libya. Incidents are reported to have taken place in the towns of Qawalish, Awaniya, Rayaniyah and Zawiyat al-Bagul seized …

Preventive Diplomacy: No Asian Century without the pan-Asian Institution

15:00 14.07.2011 Anis Bajrektarević

Preventive Diplomacy: No Asian Century without the pan-Asian Institution

For over a decade, many of the relevant academic journals are full of articles prophesizing the 21st as the Asian century. The argument is usually based on the impressive economic growth, increased production and trade volumes as well as the booming foreign currency reserves and exports of many populous Asian …

Obama vs. Republicans: Patriotism put to Test

8:10 14.07.2011 Armen Oganesyan

Obama vs. Republicans: Patriotism put to Test

One of the paradoxes we are witnessing these days is that financial embarrassments hit the world's richest countries. The US Administration has no money for social security payments, while Brussels struggles to mobilize sufficient funds to keep its debt-ridden economies – Greece and Portugal – afloat and faces the prospects …

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