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What the Silk Road history teaches about the modern Red Sea crisis

... the potential influence from on-land positions to the waters of trade. In consequence, current sea nations may find their economic ties cut as Asian flourishing states experienced with the deterioration of the Silk Road connections. In conclusion, the history of the Silk Road is a lesson and the Houthis’ activities in the Red Sea are a signal for the contemporary economic relations based on the sea routes. Therefore, it is significant to remember the history of the crisis of trade along the Red Road ...

20.02.2024

The World in a “Precedence of Simulacra”: Towards a Triumph of Historicism?

... historical aspects of oriental studies), international relations have traditionally been influenced by historical research methodology. Accordingly, even despite their interdisciplinary nature, these subjects have been affected by challenges encountered in history as a branch of learning. Vasily Kuznetsov: The Middle East: Postmodernism Is Over In the 1990s, Russian historical science abandoned Marxism, yet failed to immediately develop revised theoretical and methodological foundations that would go beyond ...

03.03.2023

Aristotle and Alexander: Two Perspectives on Globalization

... Great was a hero, although he cautioned against proving this statement by destroying government property. Indeed, Alexander the Great was the first to attempt the heroic feat of uniting the entire ecumene known to Europeans in BC 334–323. Certainly, history knew great conquerors before Alexander, people who established vast empires, but Alexander laid down, if we may say so, both the material and the ideological and political foundations of a globalization project in classical antiquity. Alexander ...

31.12.2020

Karabakh—A Delicate Matter

... winner by ending hostilities, introducing peacekeepers, and maintaining its central role in the vital Caucasus region. However, Russia’s direct intervention in the Karabakh conflict with the November peace statement also bears echoes of much earlier history. Echoes of the Past Christian Wollny: Nagorno-Karabakh: A Frozen Conflict Rethawed On July 24 (August 4) 1783, at the southern Russian fortress of Georgiyevsk, representatives of Russian Empress Catherine the Great and Georgian King Erekle II ...

07.12.2020

A Brief History of Sino-Soviet Union/Russia Political Relations from 1949 to 2019

... assistance of the USSR until it gained power. After the founding of the PRC, China and the Soviet Union formed an alliance, and China applied the Soviet Union (USSR) model for socialist construction. Thus, it can be said that bilateral relations reflect the history of the Chinese revolution and the history of PRC's early development. In USSR, although Sino-Soviet relations did not occupy a dominant position, the importance of Sino-Soviet relations should not be neglected. Especially, China played a role ...

25.11.2020

Russia and China in the Arctic: Cooperation, Competition, and Consequences

China and Russia act in accordance with their own interests, which are not always identical. For the time being, the creation of a Russo-Chinese military alliance isn’t a viable idea, and cooperation between China and Russia in the Arctic is exclusively economic. China and Russia act in accordance with their own interests, which are not always identical. For the time being, the creation of a Russo-Chinese military alliance isn’t a viable idea, and cooperation between China and Russia in the Arctic...

01.04.2020

The End of the Cold War: 30 Years On

While going through my archived papers dating back 30 years, I came upon this Oscar Wilde quote: “The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.” While going through my archived papers dating back 30 years, I came upon this Oscar Wilde quote: “The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.” This got me thinking how good it would be to go back in time and ...

23.10.2019

Russia’s Changing Identity: In Search of a Role in the 21st Century

... great power among other leading players in Europe, and later in the world. If there is one thing that Russia treasures most in the United Nations system, that is its position as a permanent veto-wielding member of the UN Security Council. In Russian history, the Soviet period stands out for two aberrations resulting from the communist ideology that the country’s leaders embraced and served. One—the more short-lived of the two—was turning the state into a revolutionary vehicle for a global ideology-driven ...

31.07.2019

Obstacles and Opportunities for Economic Engagement between Australia and the Russian Federation

Presentation to the XX April 2019 International Politics Conference Presentation to the XX April 2019 International Politics Conference Introduction My presentation on contemporary Australia-Russia economic relations is divided into two sections. The first focuses on geo-economics, which looks at both countries current trade and foreign investment priorities, including the implications of China’s monumental One Belt One Road project (OBOR), in which Russia has often been characterised as an integral...

10.04.2019

The House That Built Who?

This year is filled with anniversaries of events that happened in 1989. Back then Europe and the entire world witnessed a change of the sociopolitical paradigm, which soon led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the end of the previous system of international relations. This year is filled with anniversaries of events that happened in 1989. Back then Europe and the entire world witnessed a change of the sociopolitical paradigm, which soon led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union...

29.03.2019
 

Poll conducted

  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
     21 (19%)
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