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Explaining the Durability of the Cold War System and its Sudden End
Courtesy of the outcome of the Second World War, the Soviet Union and the US emerged as the two superpowers. Allies in the second...
Doubt candy: How to sell inconsistency
“Ah, it is easy to deceive me! I long to be deceived myself!” — thus famously ends one of Alexander Pushkin’s poems entitled “Confession”....
Why it is still important to study the Peloponnesian War in International Relations
Although the Peloponnesian war happened 2400 years ago, its scenario still happening nowadays in the international arena, and what Thucydides stated about the Peloponnesian...
Opportunism and July’s Armenian-Azerbaijani Flareup
By mid-July, within days of the latest flareup in fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan, a flurry of articles written by Azerbaijani think tank members...
Ho Chi Minh and His Role in August Revolution
Following the end of the Second World War Vietnam which was a colony divided into multiple countries came together under the independence initiative undertaken...
From Prussia to Germany: Bismarck’s Foreign Policy
Before Bismarck helmed the German stewardship, the German areas were fragmented into many a piece— this included two major exceptions: Hanover governed by the...
Turkey’s Neo-Ottomanism is knocking on the door
Turkey’s resurgence as a center of Islamic values and its strategy of drifting away from Western influenced society is in the making. The neo-Ottomanism’s...
To Ease the Horror: U.S. Elections, World History and the Withering Promise of Life on Earth
"The horror, the horror," mumbles the Marlon Brando character in Apocalypse Now. Though merely cinematic, this sentiment exclaims a brutally truthful observation: While each...
Otto von Bismarck: How did he maintain peace in Europe
The war of 1870 between France and Prussia had two major consequences. First and foremost, the defeat of France and the subsequent Treaty of...
New Wars and the Fallacies of Traditional Deterrence Approaches
1945 - the year when the whole world witnessed the catastrophe of nuclear weapon use, their indiscriminate effect and their immense destructive power, has...