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2019: Towards a new world (dis)order
The
Munich Security Conference is a leading annual forum on international security
and strategy. The theme of its recent installment, The Great Puzzle: Who Will Pick Up...
Iran vs. US: Bracing for war?
On May 8, 2018, President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from
the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better known as the Iran
nuclear deal,...
Will Islamophobes take over democracies in the West?
One is alarmed to see how Islamophobes have
begun to dominate secular forces in `civilized’ western democracies. During the
2008 American presidential election `several Republican politicians...
The Russian Mafia
Since 1992, the Russian word Mafyia has
been officially used in the Russian Federation’s documents to refer above all
to organized crime, structured through stable groups...
The Fall of the Social State and Rise of Neo-liberalism
European
integration has been transformed into neo-liberal project when the economic
crisis and global competition were strengthened starting from 1970s. There were
other important occurrences which caused...
Ukraine: The end of the show or the beginning of the next chapter?
The outcome of the presidential elections in
Ukraine has triggered lively comments by Western experts. Nearly all
publications have described the victory of comedian Vladimir Zelensky...
NATO at 70: Anniversary Amid a Crisis
The NATO countries’ shared
decision to extend the current mandate of the organization’s Secretary General
Jens Stoltenberg until September 2022 demonstrates the desire of the North
Atlantic...
Why Regime Change in Iran is dangerous for America and its allies
Iran is in a deep social and economic crisis. Despite its foreign
policy successes in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen, the Iranian regime has
failed its...
Munich Neglect – Azov Package of Sanctions instead of Minsk Agreements
The 55th Munich Conference on security issues featured no
separate panel on Ukraine. The statement by NATO’s former Secretary General
Anders Fogh Rasmussen that “from the...
Standing for Everything Evil against Everything Good: Russia’s Hostile Measures in Europe
In late January, researchers from the renowned U.S. research centre RAND Corporation made their contribution to maintaining anti-Russian sentiments by publishing an analytical paper...