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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...
50 years have passed since Perón’s visionary environmental message
On February 21, 1972 Juan Domingo Perón announced the publication of his letter known as “Mensaje Ambiental a los pueblos y Gobiernos del Mundo”...
Are we seeing a Clash of Civilizations?
The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.” – Samuel Huntington
According...
Has “The Worst” Become Plausible?: Rising Risks Of A Nuclear War With North Korea
“The worst does sometime happen.”-Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss Playwright
World System Structure and National Security
More worrisome than other perils, North Korea’s recent missile tests suggest steadily...
From the Chinese Revolution of 1911 to the exclusion from the UN (1949-1971)
The Chinese awakening was one of the central events in the history of the 20th century history. In the penultimate decade of the 19th...