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Ukraine in Asia – A brief Analysis
Since its unprovoked military aggression against Ukraine, Russia has inundated the world with misinformation and disinformation in efforts to justify its military operations and...
Decontextualization and Ukraine, War and Peace: Return of the Wir wussten nicht
“He who does not wish to speak of capitalism should remain forever silent about Nazism” – I quoted West Germany’s Max Horkheimer some two...
Echoes From The Past: An Analysis Of The Greek Civil War
“But the war has not ended yet, because no war has ever ended”. -Manolis Anagnostakis ( from his poetic collection Epohes/Seasons)
In every nation’s history,...
Ethnic Exclusion & Reasons For Kurdish Mobilization
The plausible reasons that justify the Kurdish plea to establish a separate nation are constantly being discredited at both the regional and international level....
How the Vietnamese History Constrains its Policy Choices Today
Recently, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Center released its annual State of Southeast Asia Report that, among other things, found Vietnamese distrust of China remains very high....
Managing “Friction” In Ukraine: Russia, The United States And Inadvertent Nuclear War
“Friction is the difference between war on paper and war as it actually is.”-Karl von Clausewitz, On War
The “Friction” of Nuclear Crisis
Amid multiplying perils...
The Russo-Ukrainian War and the Lessons from History
Given the recent and ongoing full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, one may be reminded that war is nothing but the continuation of politics –...
Ancient Sino-Arabian Cultural Communication: Highlighting the Tang Dynasty
In September 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative. This initiative aims to revive the historic Silk...
Yearnings For Immortality: World Politics, Realpolitik and Power Over Death
Abstract: “Individual man sees in his country,” says Heinrich von Treitschke in Lectures on Politics, “the realization of his earthly immortality.” Though difficult to...
Britain’s efforts to regain lost glory: possibilities and challenges
There was a time when the world said that the sun never set on the British Empire. As history unfolds, we see that the...