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Armenian geopolitics: Threats and claims
A couple of days ago I encountered a publication from Modern Diplomacy`s Geopolitical Handbooks series. I was thrilled to learn something interesting when its...
Re-Negotiating Apartheid in 21st century’s South Africa
Introduction to the Idea of Apartheid
‘Apartheid’ or Apartness is the term used in Afrikaans and Dutch languages. It is the name given to separating...
Retreat To The “Fuhrerbunker”: A Remembrance Of Things Past?
"Is it an end that draws near, or a beginning?"-Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age (1951)
Toward the close of World War II, with...
Western Heraldry in Modern Georgia
Authors: Prof. Dr. Tedo Dundua, Dr. Emil Avdaliani
For millennia flags have served as national symbols. They also serve as a form of communication. But...
Baluchistan under the British Administrative System
Frontiers have always been regarded as a chicken neck for almost all the states of the world. Analyzing the very importance of frontiers in...
Don’t Whitewash the Sri Lankan State’s Many Crimes
A recent article in these pages examines the Sri Lankan government’s battle against the Tamil Tigers, the activities of the Tamil diaspora and more....
Deconstructing Huntington’s thesis in the context of “Black Lives Matter” movement in the USA
Authors: Nalaka Jayasena and Punsara Amarasinghe
While writing an article to the famous Foreign Affairs, American polymath Joseph Nye jubilantly remarked that the COVID 19...
The name of the US system is not the “presidential system”
11 years after the United States declared independence from the British Kingdom, 55 people representing 12 colonies gathered in Philadelphia on May 25, 1787....
The importance of Oil to Energy Development
The modern history and innovation of petroleum dates back to 1846 when the process of refining kerosene from coal was introduced. The credit for...
When An American President Becomes Agent Provacateur
"Whoever can dominate the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots...