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Electric cars on German highways

15:00 06.06.2011 Natalia Meden

Electric cars on German highways

Chancellor Angela Merkel`s cabinet has addressed Germany`s car makers to increase production 400 times by the year 2021. As of the 1st of January, 2011, Germany car makers had produced 42.4 million cars, 30.5 million of which had internal combustion engines, 11.3 milion units were diesel-powered cars, 400,000 were LNG …

From Mladic to Gadhafi: Geopolitics Overrides Legitimacy of National Leaders

15:00 01.06.2011 Pyotr Iskenderov

From Mladic to Gadhafi: Geopolitics Overrides Legitimacy of National Leaders

The arrest in Serbia of former Bosnian Serb army commander, legendary Gen. R. Mladic and the statement on the illegitimacy of Gadhafi’s rule in Libya issued collectively at the G8 summit in Deauville combine neatly within the same paradigm: in a unipolar world, as long as it continues to exist, …

The Arrest of R. Mladic From the Perspective of International Law

15:00 31.05.2011 Alexander Mezyaev

The Arrest of R. Mladic From the Perspective of International Law

The May 26 arrest of former Serbian military leader Gen. R. Mladic evokes serious questions of both moral and legal character. Clearly aware of the shakiness of the indictment Mladic is about to face, the global media tend to avoid touching upon the legal aspect of the Mladic case.It is …

They put others on trial, not to be tried themselves. On the arrest of General Mladic

15:00 30.05.2011 Elena Ponomareva

They put others on trial, not to be tried themselves. On the arrest of General Mladic

The recent arrest of the Chief of the General Staff of the Republika Srpska Army, General Ratko Mladic, as well as preparations for his extradition to The Hague is another in the chain of events that are part of the on-going “mopping-up of History”… Ratko Mladic was the central figure …

Foreign Relations of India: BRICS and India, BRICS in Africa

15:00 26.05.2011 Prof. Aparajita Biswas

Foreign Relations of India: BRICS and India, BRICS in Africa

Since the 1990’s, India’s foreign policy has gone through a metamorphosis in tune with the changing global scenario. The disintegration of USSR, demise of the bipolar world and domestic economic problems prompted India to reassess its foreign policy and adjust its foreign relations of the earlier decades. Serious domestic and …

Strauss-Kahn and rambunctious final of “Washington consensus”

15:00 25.05.2011 Elena Pustovoytova

Strauss-Kahn and rambunctious final of “Washington consensus”

The arrest of the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn onboard of the plane ten minutes before flying to Paris from New York shook the global mass media not less than the elimination of terrorist N 1 Osama bin laden in Pakistan. Does it mean that both …

UN Reform: The European Perspective

15:00 24.05.2011 Armen Oganesyan

UN Reform: The European Perspective

The ongoing crisis of global governance naturally turnes the spotlight on the role and potential of the UN. The collapse of the bipolar system, the unipolar world inability, the mounting pressure of global challenges, the lingering financial crisis altogether created a climate of heightened expectations around the UN. While broad …

NATO testing «Kosovo model» in Libya and Syria

15:00 24.05.2011 Pyotr Iskenderov

NATO testing «Kosovo model» in Libya and Syria

On the 23d of May the naval forces of the US, NATO, South Europe and North Africa launched the maneuvers codenamed Phoenix Express. Politically, the aim is to demonstrate that members of the alliance are ready to join efforts in case anything goes wrong in Libya. As far as the …

Will NATO Forces Under the UN Flag Take the Jamahiriya’s Place in Libya?

15:00 20.05.2011 Sergei Shashkov

Will NATO Forces Under the UN Flag Take the Jamahiriya’s Place in Libya?

Three months after the outbreak of the carefully arranged foreign-backed mutiny in Libya, it transpired that the plan to topple the regime in the country as it had been done almost effortlessly in Tunisia and Egypt was not going to materialize. The failure clearly left the plan’s authors in a …

Will NATO Forces Under the UN Flag Take the Jamahiriya’s Place in Libya?

15:00 20.05.2011 Sergei Shashkov

Will NATO Forces Under the UN Flag Take the Jamahiriya’s Place in Libya?

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg." --Abraham Lincoln A conference on Libya convened in London on March 29 and was attended by representatives from 40 countries which had voted for UN Security …

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