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Beware the Munich Lesson… especially in Ukraine
"Appeasement in itself may be good or bad according to the circumstances. Appeasement from weakness and fear is alike futile and fatal. Appeasement from...
Human History and the Wonder of the Horse
Imagine a person accustomed to traveling at 3 to 4 mph, who discovers a means (the horse) to speed up to 5 times that...
Who hates China’s rise the most: from the “yellow peril” to the “biggest challenger”
From Deng Xiaoping’s economic policy that lifted more than 800 million people out of poverty to China’s current domination in the field of Artificial...
Battling for supremacy: Tearing Sudan apart (Sudan civil war 2023)
Historical background:
In 2019 Sudan president Omar-al-Bashir made Abdul Fattah al-Burhan Inspector General of the Sudanese army and then 2 months later, General Abdul Fattah...
National Reconciliation in Tajikistan: The Civil War, Peace Process and Stability in Central Asia
By the late 1980s, the Soviet Union was on the edge of a total collapse. Political and social turmoil loomed over Central Asia, clearing...
From Nehru to Modi’s India
A few weeks ago, India’s main opposition party leader Rahul Gandhi was sentenced to two-year jail for a defamation case. The case was about...
Religion inspired the nation-state, but politics made the difference
Think that the modern nation-state originated with the emergence of the 17th-century beginnings of the era of science and reason? Think again.
In a recently...
Epistemicide: Intellectual Genocide and Eurocentric Modernity
When the Europeans colonized the Global South, they not only appropriated tangible resources but also occupied and transformed the epistemological landscape to propound their...
Communication as a realm of human enigmatic growth
In March 2023 UMEF Swiss University hosted a special guest Richard Hill, Ph.D. who is a former senior ITU staff member and who is...
Dance and games offer glimpses of life – and death – in ancient Italy
Tomb and urn images shed light on the intricacies of Etruscan and Roman civilisation at least 2 000 years ago, reviving it for modern...